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Re: Embedded SQL with Postgres



Gregory Seidman wrote:

> Are you compiling legacy embedded SQL, or are you developing new code?
> Embedded SQL was one of those bad ideas that existed because there was
> nothing better at the time. Nowadays I'd recommend using either ODBC
> (see unixodbc, unixodbc-bin, unixodbc-dev, and odbc-postgresql) or
> something like Qt's DB support.

It's for my master thesis so I never doubted to use some DBS-specific
proprietary mechnism to store my data.

> If you must use embedded SQL, the libecpg-dev package includes/depends
> on the necessary libraries, headers, and ESQL preprocessor (ecpg).
> 

No, I have already tried that package...

Stephan



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