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From: aoki@cs.berkeley.edu (Paul M. Aoki)
To: pmamnani@cs.nmsu.edu (Praveen Mamnani)
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: libpq append
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pmamnani@cs.nmsu.edu (Praveen Mamnani) writes:
> I tried PQexec("append..."), 
> but this does not seem to work. I am not sure that libpq allows
> execution of such queries using PQexec.

it does, and by-and-large it works.  (this example maximizes 
minimality rather than correctness.)

faerie:postgres (7)> cat foo.c
main()
{
  (void) PQsetdb("foo");
  (void) PQexec("create bar (x=int4)");
  (void) PQexec("append bar (x=5)");
  (void) PQfinish();
}
faerie:postgres (8)> cc foo.c /private/devel/postgres/lib/libpq.a
faerie:postgres (9)> a.out 
faerie:postgres (10)> monitor -c 'retrieve (bar.all)' foo
---------------
| x           |
---------------
| 5           |
---------------
faerie:postgres (11)> 

there are examples of retrieving rows in the reference manual and 
under src/regress.
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