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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] [ANN] pg.el v0.2 -- Emacs Lisp interface to
	PostgreSQL
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From: Eric Marsden <emarsden@mail.dotcom.fr>
Date: 21 Jul 1999 16:18:20 +0200
In-Reply-To: Hugh Lawson's message of Wed, 21 Jul 1999 08:27:48 -0400 (EDT)
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>>>>> "hl" == Hugh Lawson <hglawson@nr.infi.net> writes:

  hl> I am asking a dumb question here, so please be patient. Does
  hl> this mean that given pg.el you have to write elisp functions in
  hl> order to make use of it?
  hl> 
  hl> Is the "defun demo()" above an example of such a function?  If I
  hl> understand correct, to use pg.el, I would write an elisp function in
  hl> emacs and then evaluate it.  Have I got this right?

Hi Hugh,

That's right. demo is an example of the type of elisp a programmer
would write to access PostgreSQL from Emacs. You can also play around
with it interactively:

  ELISP> (setq conn (pg:connect "template1" "postgres" "postgres"))
  <struct cl ...>
  ELISP> (setq res (pg:exec conn "SELECT * from scshdemo WHERE a=42"))
  <struct cl ...>
  ELISP> (pg:result res :status)
  "SELECT"

etc

I intend to get together with someone else who has written some table
browsing stuff for Emacs to produce a browsing interface to PostgreSQL
for the end user, but I haven't had time yet.
  
-- 
Eric Marsden
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