Re: Getting "copy from" to work from a C++ program

On Thursday 04 April 2002 07:08, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to insert several records into a table in one shot
> (from a C++ program, that is).
>
> All my attempts to use "copy from" have failed (well, I
> haven't tried copying from an actual file, since I have
> the data in memory, and I'd like to avoid the overhead
> to write it to a file first). Is it possible?? I've
> tried things like:
>
> PgDatabase db(" ..... ");
> db.Exec ("copy deleteme from stdin\n1\tName1\n2\tName2");

I use this (libpq, not libpq++, but you'll get it):

void dbcon::copy(char* table, char* buf){
char copy_qry[256];

snprintf(copy_qry, 256, "copy %s from stdin", table);
PQexec(conn, copy_qry);
PQputline(conn, buf);
PQputline(conn, "\\.\n");
PQendcopy(conn);
}