/* * testlibpq.c Test the C version of Libpq, the Postgres frontend * library. * Sample Program 1 */ #include #include void exit_nicely(PGconn *conn) { PQfinish(conn); exit(1); } main() { char *pghost, *pgport, *pgoptions, *pgtty; char *dbName; int nFields; int i, j; /* FILE *debug; */ PGconn *conn; PGresult *res; /* * begin, by setting the parameters for a backend connection if the * parameters are null, then the system will try to use reasonable * defaults by looking up environment variables or, failing that, * using hardwired constants */ pghost = NULL; /* host name of the backend server */ pgport = NULL; /* port of the backend server */ pgoptions = NULL; /* special options to start up the backend * server */ pgtty = NULL; /* debugging tty for the backend server */ dbName = "masterdb"; /* make a connection to the database */ conn = PQsetdb(pghost, pgport, pgoptions, pgtty, dbName); /* * check to see that the backend connection was successfully made */ if (PQstatus(conn) == CONNECTION_BAD) { fprintf(stderr, "Connection to database '%s' failed.\n", dbName); fprintf(stderr, "%s", PQerrorMessage(conn)); exit_nicely(conn); } /* debug = fopen("/tmp/trace.out","w"); */ /* PQtrace(conn, debug); */ /* start a transaction block */ res = PQexec(conn, "BEGIN"); if (!res || PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_COMMAND_OK) { fprintf(stderr, "BEGIN command failed\n"); PQclear(res); exit_nicely(conn); } /* * should PQclear PGresult whenever it is no longer needed to avoid * memory leaks */ PQclear(res); /* * fetch instances from the pg_database, the system catalog of * databases */ res = PQexec(conn, "DECLARE mycursor CURSOR FOR select * from pg_database"); if (!res || PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_COMMAND_OK) { fprintf(stderr, "DECLARE CURSOR command failed\n"); PQclear(res); exit_nicely(conn); } PQclear(res); res = PQexec(conn, "FETCH ALL in mycursor"); if (!res || PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK) { fprintf(stderr, "FETCH ALL command didn't return tuples properly\n"); PQclear(res); exit_nicely(conn); } /* first, print out the attribute names */ nFields = PQnfields(res); for (i = 0; i < nFields; i++) printf("%-15s", PQfname(res, i)); printf("\n\n"); /* next, print out the instances */ for (i = 0; i < PQntuples(res); i++) { for (j = 0; j < nFields; j++) printf("%-15s", PQgetvalue(res, i, j)); printf("\n"); } PQclear(res); /* close the cursor */ res = PQexec(conn, "CLOSE mycursor"); PQclear(res); /* commit the transaction */ res = PQexec(conn, "COMMIT"); PQclear(res); /* close the connection to the database and cleanup */ PQfinish(conn); /* fclose(debug); */ return 0; }