From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Philip Yarra <philip@utiba.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Postgres 7.4 : ECPG not Thread-safe
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 00:33:09 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200311130533.hAD5X9628562@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200311131608.18106.philip@utiba.com>
Philip Yarra wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 03:47 pm, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Philip Yarra wrote:
> > > I'm willing to have a go at updating the doco. Can someone point me to a
> > > guide to getting started with the markup we use?
> >
> > Great, but be warned --- the work is huge.
>
> Yikes! I just figured updating the manual section would be a good start. I'll
> deal with *huge* later.
>
> > Let me also add
> > that it is totally cool! It doesn't look all that friendly, but once
> > you start coding in it, and pass variables in and out of queries, it
> > takes on amazing power and has amazing clarity.
>
> Personally I don't really like embedded SQL, and would prefer libpq, except
> for one beautiful feature: it's quite portable (Informix->Sybase->PostgreSQL
> with minimal re-coding).
>
> > Anyway, I think you can grab any ANSI SQL enbedded document and get
> > ideas. You can look at vendors docs because those are going to be very
> > similar, and you can look at the ANSI standard for ideas.
>
> I have some of the vendors' ones to look at for ideas.
>
> Is the ANSI doc (freely) available?
Just grab a draft as mentioned in our developers FAQ.
> > that really shows the power of ecpg --- right now, our docs don't do it
> > justice.
>
> Agreed. I'll see what I can do. I figure just adding "always use 'AT
> connection_name' in a threaded application or suffer the consequences" would
> be a good start.
I guess, but there still a lot missing. I wonder if we should just find
a good document on the web and point people there --- why reinvent the
wheel.
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