New C++ client API to PostgreSQL has been released!

Introduction

The PostgreSQL Frontend (Pgfe) is client C++ API to PostgreSQL servers. This software is "beta" quality, and the API is a subject to change. Any feedback is highly appreciated.

Features

Current API allows to work with:

• database connections (in both blocking and non-blocking IO manner);
• prepared statements (named parameters are supported);
• SQLSTATE codes (as simple as with enums);
• dynamic SQL;
• extensible data type conversions (including support of PostgreSQL arrays to/from STL containers conversions).

Features of the near future

The urgent TODO-list includes:

• support for Large Objects via IO streams of the Standard C++ library;
• support of COPY command;
• support of work with SQL queries separately of C++ code;
• the Composite data type to work with composite types;
• the Dynamic_array data type to work with arrays of variable dimensions;
• C API.

Details

For details please refer to:

• the Pgfe documentation;
• the Pgfe project page on GitHub.