From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Message-Id: <200103072143.QAA00583@candle.pha.pa.us>
Subject: Re: libpq++
In-Reply-To: <20010307205247.E3900@cistron.nl> "from J. T. Vermeulen at Mar 7,
	2001 08:52:47 pm"
To: "J. T. Vermeulen" <jtv@cistron-office.nl>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 16:43:29 -0500 (EST)
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Sounds great.  We are in 7.1 beta hold, so keep going and we can apply
anything you have once we start on 7.2.

> Is anyone maintaining libpq++?  My patches are beginning to seriously 
> overlap each other, making it hard to submit them individually.
> 
> If there's nobody out there, I'd be willing to maintain this code and
> make more extensive changes.  In particular, I would like to:
> 
>  - introduce exceptions instead of manual checking, as suggested in TODO;
>  - update the manual;
>  - review all the little consts, bools, explicits and such;
>  - replace PgTransaction by a more fine-grained and exception-safe 
>    mechanism outside the PgDatabase hierarchy;
>  - provide STL-conformant interfaces for iterating over result sets;
>  - allow fields to be accessed in a type-safe manner;
>  - ensure clean compilation under g++ 3.0;
>  - bring functionality up-to-date with libpq if, as & where needed
> 
> Would that be OK?
> 
> 
> Jeroen
> 
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