Re: COPY Question

In article <3ACB8E7F(dot)C12A50CA(at)intrinsity(dot)com>, "John Coers"
<coers(at)intrinsity(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am writing a C program that accesses a 7.0.3 database using libpq. I
> would like to be able to do a fprintf through some file pointer or pipe
> TO the database via a PQexec call of COPY. I have been unable to figure
> out if this is possible. I see where I can do this via stdin, but I
> don't want the user to make the entry, I want the executable to do it
> and still enjoy the performance of the COPY command.

If you're on UNIX, look at the popen(3) call.

Gordon.
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