Re: [GENERAL] Libpq question

2012-05-20 Thread John Townsend
es a decent job and can save you a lot of time. You still have to clean some translations. Look at the *.c & *.h \src\interfaces\libpq directory that comes with the postgres source. John On 5/20/2012 7:51 AM, zeljko wrote: John Townsend wrote: It appears that some developers (Dav

Re: [GENERAL] Libpq question

2012-05-21 Thread John Townsend
In that case, yes, there are such implementations around. Martijn mentioned a few, and I mentioned the Pike one, all of which do indeed bypass libpq and talk directly to the server. It is, as I understand it, an open and stable protocol, so it's no different from writing a program that connects to

Re: [GENERAL] Libpq question

2012-05-21 Thread John Townsend
On 5/21/2012 7:56 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 2:52 PM, John Townsend wrote: By by-passing the "dll" (or "so" on Linux) library I mean you write function or procedure calls to the server that is running as a service on Windows. You don't use

[GENERAL] Procedural Languages

2012-05-31 Thread John Townsend
There are least 10 Procedural Languages <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/pgSQL> available for PostGreSQL. The one that comes with the installation is PL/pgSQL. Which ones do you use and why? Thanks, John Townsend

Re: [GENERAL] Procedural Languages

2012-05-31 Thread John Townsend
On 5/31/2012 3:13 PM, Mike Toews wrote: On 1 June 2012 02:36, John Townsend wrote: There are least 10 Procedural Languages available for PostGreSQL. The one that comes with the installation is PL/pgSQL. The count looks closer to 18 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL#Procedural_languages

Re: [GENERAL] Procedural Languages

2012-06-01 Thread John Townsend
On 5/31/2012 10:52 PM, Chris Travers wrote: Minor correction On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:57 PM, John Townsend wrote: Fortran was the first computer language for me. (I guess that reveals my age :-) ) Fortran was my second computer language, but I hated it. PL/pgSQL is easy to learn for me

[GENERAL] Libpq question

2012-05-16 Thread John Townsend
165 KB which was downloaded (Enterprise site). I use C++ very little, so this is probably due to compiler settings / flags, or perhaps just the use of just another compiler. Thanks John Townsend -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your