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From: "Carlos Moreno" <moreno@mochima.com>
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To: "J. T. Vermeulen"  <jtv@cistron-office.nl>,
	Bruce Momjian  <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: libpq++
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>>  - provide STL-conformant interfaces for iterating over result sets;
>>  - allow fields to be accessed in a type-safe manner;

This would be beautiful!  I can picture myself having fun 
writing code like this:

conn.Exec ("select .....");

copy (conn.tuples().begin(), conn.tuples().end(), 
      ostream_iterator<tuple> (cout, "\n"));

(or even conn.begin(), conn.end())

or:

void custom_print_row (const tuple & row)
{
    cout << "ID: " << row["ID"] << endl
         << "Name: " << row["name"] << endl 
         << "Age: " << current_year() - row["year_born"] 
         << endl << endl;
}

for_each (conn.begin(), conn.end(), custom_print_row);

Things like that...  Definitely nice! 

Carlos
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