/* * src/test/examples/testlibpq.c * * * testlibpq.c * * Test the C version of libpq, the PostgreSQL frontend library. */ #include #include #include "libpq-fe.h" static void exit_nicely(PGconn *conn) { PQfinish(conn); exit(1); } int main(int argc, char **argv) { const char *conninfo; PGconn *conn; PGresult *res; int nFields; int i, j; /* * If the user supplies a parameter on the command line, use it as the * conninfo string; otherwise default to setting dbname=postgres and using * environment variables or defaults for all other connection parameters. */ if (argc > 1) conninfo = argv[1]; else conninfo = "dbname = postgres"; /* Make a connection to the database */ conn = PQconnectdb(conninfo); /* Check to see that the backend connection was successfully made */ if (PQstatus(conn) != CONNECTION_OK) { fprintf(stderr, "%s", PQerrorMessage(conn)); exit_nicely(conn); } /* Set always-secure search path, so malicious users can't take control. */ res = PQexec(conn, "SELECT pg_catalog.set_config('search_path', '', false)"); if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK) { fprintf(stderr, "SET failed: %s", PQerrorMessage(conn)); PQclear(res); exit_nicely(conn); } /* * Should PQclear PGresult whenever it is no longer needed to avoid memory * leaks */ PQclear(res); /* * Our test case here involves using a cursor, for which we must be inside * a transaction block. We could do the whole thing with a single * PQexec() of "select * from pg_database", but that's too trivial to make * a good example. */ /* Start a transaction block */ res = PQexec(conn, "BEGIN"); if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_COMMAND_OK) { fprintf(stderr, "BEGIN command failed: %s", PQerrorMessage(conn)); PQclear(res); exit_nicely(conn); } PQclear(res); /* * Fetch rows from pg_database, the system catalog of databases */ res = PQexec(conn, "DECLARE myportal CURSOR FOR select * from pg_database"); if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_COMMAND_OK) { fprintf(stderr, "DECLARE CURSOR failed: %s", PQerrorMessage(conn)); PQclear(res); exit_nicely(conn); } PQclear(res); res = PQexec(conn, "FETCH ALL in myportal"); if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK) { fprintf(stderr, "FETCH ALL failed: %s", PQerrorMessage(conn)); PQclear(res); exit_nicely(conn); } /* first, print out the attribute names */ nFields = PQnfields(res); for (i = 0; i < nFields; i++) printf("%-15s", PQfname(res, i)); printf("\n\n"); /* next, print out the rows */ for (i = 0; i < PQntuples(res); i++) { for (j = 0; j < nFields; j++) printf("%-15s", PQgetvalue(res, i, j)); printf("\n"); } PQclear(res); /* close the portal ... we don't bother to check for errors ... */ res = PQexec(conn, "CLOSE myportal"); PQclear(res); /* end the transaction */ res = PQexec(conn, "END"); PQclear(res); /* close the connection to the database and cleanup */ PQfinish(conn); return 0; }