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From: aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Paul M. Aoki)
To: bruce@comu11.auckland.ac.nz (Bruce Thomson)
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: PQExec inside a C function? 
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bruce@comu11.auckland.ac.nz (Bruce Thomson) writes:
> I am trying to call a user function from within the monitor that should
> do some PQExec'd insertions into a table.

> PQsetdb ("external");
> PQexec("begin");
          ^^^^^
> sprintf(append_line,"append twovals(x1=%d,x2=%d)",x,x*2);
> PQexec(append_line);
> PQexec("end");
          ^^^

if this is postgres 4.x, x<2, this won't work at all.

if this is 4.2, you stand some chance but you don't want to use begin/end.
(all backend "libpq" calls are executed in the same transaction already.)
you also don't want to link your function with libpq, *ever*, if it's going
to be used in the backend -- there are equivalent functions in the backend.
i don't think you need to do PQsetdb since you're already in a backend
that is attached to a database.

in general this interface has a lot of problems.  i don't particularly
recommend it though the alternative (direct access method calls) isn't
very nice either.
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