/* * testlibpq.c * * Test the C version of libpq, the PostgreSQL frontend * library. */ #include #include void exit_nicely(PGconn *conn) { PQfinish(conn); exit(1); } main() { char *pghost, *pgport, *pgoptions, *pgtty; char dbName[32]; char password[32]; char conninfo[128]; int nFields; int i, j; /* FILE *debug; */ PGconn *conn; PGresult *res; printf("database name: "); scanf("%s", dbName); printf("password: "); scanf("%s", password); sprintf(conninfo, "host = marlowe dbname = %s user = %s password = %s", dbName, dbName, password); /* make a connection to the database */ conn = PQconnectdb(conninfo); /* * 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 rows from the pg_database, the system catalog of * databases */ res = PQexec(conn, "DECLARE mycursor CURSOR FOR select * from pg_tables"); 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 rows */ 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; }