Chapter 36. ECPG - Embedded SQL in C
Table of Contents
- 36.1. The Concept
- 36.2. Managing Database Connections
- 36.3. Running SQL Commands
- 36.4. Using Host Variables
- 36.5. Dynamic SQL
- 36.6. pgtypes Library
- 36.7. Using Descriptor Areas
- 36.8. Error Handling
- 36.9. Preprocessor Directives
- 36.10. Processing Embedded SQL Programs
- 36.11. Library Functions
- 36.12. Large Objects
- 36.13. C++ Applications
- 36.14. Embedded SQL Commands
- 
    - ALLOCATE DESCRIPTOR - allocate an SQL descriptor area
- CONNECT - establish a database connection
- DEALLOCATE DESCRIPTOR - deallocate an SQL descriptor area
- DECLARE - define a cursor
- DESCRIBE - obtain information about a prepared statement or result set
- DISCONNECT - terminate a database connection
- EXECUTE IMMEDIATE - dynamically prepare and execute a statement
- GET DESCRIPTOR - get information from an SQL descriptor area
- OPEN - open a dynamic cursor
- PREPARE - prepare a statement for execution
- SET AUTOCOMMIT - set the autocommit behavior of the current session
- SET CONNECTION - select a database connection
- SET DESCRIPTOR - set information in an SQL descriptor area
- TYPE - define a new data type
- VAR - define a variable
- WHENEVER - specify the action to be taken when an SQL statement causes a specific class condition to be raised
 
- 36.15. Informix Compatibility Mode
- 36.16. Internals
  This chapter describes the embedded
  
   SQL
  
  package
  for
  
   PostgreSQL
  
  . It was written by
  Linus Tolke (
  
   <
   
    linus@epact.se
   
   >
  
  ) and Michael Meskes
  (
  
   <
   
    meskes@postgresql.org
   
   >
  
  ). Originally it was written to work with
  
   C
  
  . It also works with
  
   C++
  
  , but
  it does not recognize all
  
   C++
  
  constructs yet.
 
This documentation is quite incomplete. But since this interface is standardized, additional information can be found in many resources about SQL.