POSTGRES Data Base Management System

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$Header: /private/postgres/src/lib/libpq/RCS/README,v 1.4 1990/09/25 16:33:48 kemnitz Exp $

This directory contains the C version of Libpq, the POSTGRES frontend library.

The functions in Libpq will be documented in the POSTGRES Reference Manual.
Before that happens, the users can consult the documentation of the Lisp
version of Libpq and the header file libpq.h.  

To use this library, put "#include libpq.h" in your C file.  
Compile your C file with the flag "-I/usr/postgres/src/lib/H/tmp" 
and link it with libpq.a.

A sample program is in src/test/testlibpq.c.

Functions are not thoroughly tested.  There is a bug with the Exception 
Handling code.  The error messages are not generated correctly.