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Subject: New asynchronous tcl postgresql interface
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Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 12:19:02 +1000
From: Colin McCormack <colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au>

Hi,

I think this is possibly a better alternative to the shipped tcl interface.

libtclpq - tcl postgresql interface library v1.0
        Colin McCormack
        Fri Jul 23 12:00:13 EST 1999
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What it is:
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A quick/experimental Swig-generated hack
 with itcl wrapper classes to permit:

 - asynchronous execution of postgresql commands,
 - cancellation of commands in progress.


Documentation:
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None, only the test.tcl file.
Wrapper class source is pretty copiously documented.


Installation:
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several options:
        libtclpq.so provided may work for you
OR, to work from the Swig generated on my machine:
        touch tclpq_wrap.c; make libtclpq.so;
OR, if you have Swig installed, edit the Makefile and set PQDIR
        make clean all

It's not set up to reside in any system directory (qv. Bug #2)


Where:
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gzipped tar:
        ftp://field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au/pub/libtclpq/libtclpq.tgz

Swig is at:
        http://www.swig.org/

Bugs:
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1) Doesn't support COPY operations.
2) Haven't made a tcl package interface for it.


Tested with/under:
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        postgresql 6.4.2
        itcl 3.0 / tcl 8.0
        glibc2.1 under Linux 2.2.9 (debian)
        Swig 1.1p5-2 (debian)


Homepage:
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There isn't one, yet.  If I put one up, it'll be
        http://field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au/~colin/libtclpq/

Manifest:
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README		This file

Makefile
tclpq.h		Swig source file
tclpq_wrap.c	Swig output file
libtclpq.so	Interface library derived from above
tclpq_wrap.doc	Swig generated documentation

pgConnection.tcl	Wrapper for postgresql connection
pgResult.tcl		Wrapper for pg_result type

test.tcl	Sample file generating 

Author:
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Colin McCormack <colin@field.medicine.adelaide.edu.au>
        Feel free to email me with any problems/bugs.