Re: Suggesting a libpq addition

On 12/5/2010 4:22 AM, Marc Balmer wrote:
> I am suggesting adding a function to libpq:
>
> PGresult *PQvexec(PGconn *conn, const char *fmt, ...);
>
> It behaves similar to PQexec, but it allows for printf style varargs and
> does connection re-establishing if the connection fails (it can be
> discussed if this already to much magic, maybe remove this part). It
> has been carefully designed to handle memory the right way. We use this
> since a long time.
>
> What do you think?
>

I think it is a wonderful idea. Check out libpqtypes. It has a PQexecf,
PQexecvf, PQsendf and PQsendvf. But that is just the beginning....

http://libpqtypes.esilo.com
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/libpqtypes/
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