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Subject: Re: LIBPQ "global" variables
To: jolly@postgres.berkeley.edu (Jolly Chen)
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 19:31:15 -0400 (EDT)
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> > I'm wanting to access the "internal variables" provided by LIBPQ.  These
> > include PQhost, PQport, etc.  I see them all defined in the LIBPQ
> > section of the manual, but have not been able to determine how a
> > programmer is supposed to define them in an application program and
> > access them.  I can't find them defined in any of the .h files and when
> > I simply define them in my program they are not automatically
> > initialized with values I'd expect.....
> > 
> > Any help would be appreciated!
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Dan Turk     Computer Science & Information Systems     Andrews University
> > Berrien Springs, MI          turk@andrews.edu               (616) 471-3426
> > ==========================================================================
> 
> You can access these variables by declaring them as extern in your C
> program.
> 
> - Jolly Chen

I've done this and get "core dump".....!  That's what I thought I'd have
to do!

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Dan Turk     Computer Science & Information Systems     Andrews University
Berrien Springs, MI          turk@andrews.edu               (616) 471-3426
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