Re: help understanding libpq++

On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 08:28:37AM -0500, Ted Petrosky wrote:
>
> I have been working with Mac OSX (postgresql runs just fine) and I want to
> start using the developers tools (project builder) however, I do not have the
> technical expertise to create a project using the libpq or pg++ libraries.

I'm not sure I catch your meaning entirely, but if what you mean is you want
to write programs that access a PostgreSQL database through libpq or libpq++,
I'd be willing to help. It isn't very hard, although libpq++ is a bit
awkward in its interface. The basic rule for learning it is to ignore the
PgCursor, PgLargeObject and PgConnection classes. The latter may come in
handy but you'll never actually /need/ it, because PgDatabase only differs
from it in that it also lets you see query results.

And as I never fail to point out, I am working on a replacement called
libpqxx. This requires a good compiler and a programmer used to advanced
C++ concepts, but given those requirements should be easier to use and use
well.

It can be found on my home page:

http://members.ams.chello.nl/j.vermeulen31/proj-libpqxx.html

Jeroen