From: hoelc <hoelc@pd.jaring.my>
To: Michael Meskes <Michael_Meskes@topmail.de>
Cc: James Thompson <jamest@math.ksu.edu>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] question on accessing PostgreSQL with C
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:31:15 +0800
Message-ID: <36C0FD83.3A2C2F0A@pd.jaring.my> (raw)
References: <36BCE221.47837890@pd.jaring.my>
<Pine.GSO.4.05.9902061850530.6735-100000@noether.math.ksu.edu>
<19990207200346.A254@gmx.net>
Hello,
Thanks a lot.
I have a PostgreSQL-6.2.1 ( in RedHat Linux 5.0), and it doesn't has "ecpg".
I have downloaded "ecpg" from internet, but don't know how to install it into my
PostgreSQL system. Please advise.
Thank you very much.
Regards.....LCH
Michael Meskes wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 07:16:14PM -0600, James Thompson wrote:
> > http://www.dal.ca/%7eoracle/oradoc/DOC/api/doc/PC_22/toc.htm
>
> Gotta look at this.
>
> > With it you end up with something like the following in your code
> >
> > exec sql
> > insert into customer(id,name_first,name_middle,name_last,company,
> > address1,address2,city,state,country,zip,phone_work,
> > phone_home,phone_fax,email,date_entered,billing_terms,
> > confirmation_method)
> > values (:id,:name_first, :name_middle, :name_last,
> > :company,:address1,:address2,
> > :city,:state,:country,:zip,:phone_work,
> > :phone_home,:phone_fax,:email,date('now'),
> > :billing_terms,
> > :confirmation_method);
>
> Xou can even add indicators like in
>
> ... values (:id,:name_first, :name_middle:nm_ind, :name_last, ...
>
> If nm_ind is set to -1 the name_middle entry will be set to NULL.
>
> > The author of the code is very responsive to few problem reports I have
> > sent him and has sent patches, or workarounds to me usually within 24
> > hours.
>
> Glad I can help. :-)
>
> > In the few cases you can't figure out a way to make something happen using
> > ecpg I believe you can mix the libpg and ecpg code in the same program.
> > The only place I could see a need for this is when you'd need the
> > functionality given by Pro*C's Dynamic SQL which ecpg doesn't yet support,
> > but I think its in the works.
>
> It is. In fact I already submitted a patch for the PREPARE and EXECUTE
> commands. James, if you'd like to test this I can send you the source until
> it makes its way into CVS.
>
> Michael
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