From 6de7d4fe91b1f037eb9ad612a22e972037426100 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Momjian
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:54:50 +0000
Subject: Update to /contrib from Karel.
---
contrib/mSQL-interface/Makefile | 6 +--
contrib/mSQL-interface/README | 86 -----------------------------------------
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)
(limited to 'contrib/mSQL-interface')
diff --git a/contrib/mSQL-interface/Makefile b/contrib/mSQL-interface/Makefile
index 4dc20f52040..7950b6934db 100644
--- a/contrib/mSQL-interface/Makefile
+++ b/contrib/mSQL-interface/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
#
-# $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/mSQL-interface/Attic/Makefile,v 1.2 2000/06/16 18:58:54 momjian Exp $
+# $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/contrib/mSQL-interface/Attic/Makefile,v 1.3 2000/06/19 13:53:47 momjian Exp $
#
TOPDIR=../..
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ NAME = mpgsql
PROGRAM =
OBJS =
-DOCS = README $(NAME).c
+DOCS = README.$(NAME) $(NAME).c
SQLS =
BINS =
EXAMPLES=
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ install: install_doc
install_doc:
for inst_file in $(DOCS); do \
- $(INSTALL) $(INSTL_LIB_OPTS) $$inst_file $(CONTRIB_DOCDIR)/$(DOCS).$(NAME); \
+ $(INSTALL) $(INSTL_LIB_OPTS) $$inst_file $(CONTRIB_DOCDIR); \
done
clean:
diff --git a/contrib/mSQL-interface/README b/contrib/mSQL-interface/README
index 714ab290565..e69de29bb2d 100644
--- a/contrib/mSQL-interface/README
+++ b/contrib/mSQL-interface/README
@@ -1,86 +0,0 @@
-
-Hello! :)
-
-(Sorry for my english. But if i wrote in portuguese, you wouldn't
- understand nothing. :])
-
- I found it's the right place to post this. I'm a newcomer in these
-lists. I hope i did it right. :]
-
-
- When i started using SQL, i started with mSQL. I developed a lot
-of useful apps for me and my job with C, mainly because i loved it's
-elegant, simple api. But for a large project i'm doing in these days, i
-thought is was not enough, because it felt a lot of features i started to
-need, like security and subselects. (and it's not free :))
- So after looking at the options, choose to start again with
-postgres. It offered everything that i needed, and the documentation is
-really good (remember me to thank the one who wrote'em).
- But for my little apps, i needed to start porting them to libpq.
-After looking at pq's syntax, i found it was better to write a bridge
-between the mSQL api and libpq. I found that rewriting the libmsql.a
-routines that calls libpq would made things much easier. I guess the
-results are quite good right now.
-
-
- Ok. Lets' summarize it:
-
- mpgsql.c is the bridge. Acting as a wrapper, it's really good,
-since i could run mSQL. But it's not accurate. Some highlights:
-
- CONS:
- * It's not well documented
- (this post is it's first documentation attempt, in fact);
- * It doesn't handle field types correctly. I plan to fix it,
- if people start doing feedbacks;
- * It's limited to 10 simultaneous connections. I plan to enhance
- this, i'm just figuring out;
- * I'd like to make it reentrant/thread safe, although i don't
- think this could be done without changing the API structure;
- * Error Management should be better. This is my first priority
- now;
- * Some calls are just empty implementations.
-
- PROS:
- * the mSQL Monitor runs Okay. :]
- * It's really cool. :)
- * Make mSQL-made applications compatible with postgresql just by
- changing link options.
- * Uses postgreSQL. :]
- * the mSQL API it's far easier to use and understand than libpq.
- Consider this example:
-
-#include "msql.h"
-
-void main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) {
- int sid;
-
- sid = msqlConnect(NULL); /* Connects via unix socket */
-
- if (sid >= 0) {
- m_result *rlt;
- m_row *row;
- msqlSelectDB(sid, "hosts");
- if (msqlQuery(sid, "select host_id from hosts")) {
- rlt = msqlStoreResult();
- while (row = (m_row*)msqlFetchRow(rlt))
- printf("hostid: %s\n", row[0]);
- msqlFreeResult(rlt);
- }
- msqlClose(sid);
- }
-}
-
- I enclose mpgsql.c inside. I'd like to maintain it, and (maybe, am
-i dreaming) make it as part of the pgsql distribution. I guess it doesn't
-depends on me, but mainly on it's acceptance by its users.
-
- Hm... i forgot: you'll need a msql.h copy, since it's copyrighted
-by Hughes Technologies Pty Ltd. If you haven't it yes, fetch one
-from www.hughes.com.au.
-
- I would like to catch users ideas. My next goal is to add better
-error handling, and to make it better documented, and try to let relshow
-run through it. :)
-
- done. Aldrin Leal
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