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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><title>34.22. Example Programs</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" /><link rev="made" href="pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org" /><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /><link rel="prev" href="libpq-build.html" title="34.21. Building libpq Programs" /><link rel="next" href="largeobjects.html" title="Chapter 35. Large Objects" /></head><body id="docContent" class="container-fluid col-10"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="5" align="center">34.22. Example Programs</th></tr><tr><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="libpq-build.html" title="34.21. Building libpq Programs">Prev</a> </td><td width="10%" align="left"><a accesskey="u" href="libpq.html" title="Chapter 34. libpq — C Library">Up</a></td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 34. <span class="application">libpq</span> — C Library</th><td width="10%" align="right"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 15.4 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="10%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="largeobjects.html" title="Chapter 35. Large Objects">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr /></div><div class="sect1" id="LIBPQ-EXAMPLE"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both">34.22. Example Programs</h2></div></div></div><p>
+ These examples and others can be found in the
+ directory <code class="filename">src/test/examples</code> in the source code
+ distribution.
+ </p><div class="example" id="LIBPQ-EXAMPLE-1"><p class="title"><strong>Example 34.1. <span class="application">libpq</span> Example Program 1</strong></p><div class="example-contents"><pre class="programlisting">
+
+/*
+ * src/test/examples/testlibpq.c
+ *
+ *
+ * testlibpq.c
+ *
+ * Test the C version of libpq, the PostgreSQL frontend library.
+ */
+#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
+#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
+#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 &gt; 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 &lt; nFields; i++)
+ printf("%-15s", PQfname(res, i));
+ printf("\n\n");
+
+ /* next, print out the rows */
+ for (i = 0; i &lt; PQntuples(res); i++)
+ {
+ for (j = 0; j &lt; 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;
+}
+
+</pre></div></div><br class="example-break" /><div class="example" id="LIBPQ-EXAMPLE-2"><p class="title"><strong>Example 34.2. <span class="application">libpq</span> Example Program 2</strong></p><div class="example-contents"><pre class="programlisting">
+
+/*
+ * src/test/examples/testlibpq2.c
+ *
+ *
+ * testlibpq2.c
+ * Test of the asynchronous notification interface
+ *
+ * Start this program, then from psql in another window do
+ * NOTIFY TBL2;
+ * Repeat four times to get this program to exit.
+ *
+ * Or, if you want to get fancy, try this:
+ * populate a database with the following commands
+ * (provided in src/test/examples/testlibpq2.sql):
+ *
+ * CREATE SCHEMA TESTLIBPQ2;
+ * SET search_path = TESTLIBPQ2;
+ * CREATE TABLE TBL1 (i int4);
+ * CREATE TABLE TBL2 (i int4);
+ * CREATE RULE r1 AS ON INSERT TO TBL1 DO
+ * (INSERT INTO TBL2 VALUES (new.i); NOTIFY TBL2);
+ *
+ * Start this program, then from psql do this four times:
+ *
+ * INSERT INTO TESTLIBPQ2.TBL1 VALUES (10);
+ */
+
+#ifdef WIN32
+#include &lt;windows.h&gt;
+#endif
+#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
+#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
+#include &lt;string.h&gt;
+#include &lt;errno.h&gt;
+#include &lt;sys/time.h&gt;
+#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
+#ifdef HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H
+#include &lt;sys/select.h&gt;
+#endif
+
+#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;
+ PGnotify *notify;
+ int nnotifies;
+
+ /*
+ * 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 &gt; 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);
+
+ /*
+ * Issue LISTEN command to enable notifications from the rule's NOTIFY.
+ */
+ res = PQexec(conn, "LISTEN TBL2");
+ if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_COMMAND_OK)
+ {
+ fprintf(stderr, "LISTEN command failed: %s", PQerrorMessage(conn));
+ PQclear(res);
+ exit_nicely(conn);
+ }
+ PQclear(res);
+
+ /* Quit after four notifies are received. */
+ nnotifies = 0;
+ while (nnotifies &lt; 4)
+ {
+ /*
+ * Sleep until something happens on the connection. We use select(2)
+ * to wait for input, but you could also use poll() or similar
+ * facilities.
+ */
+ int sock;
+ fd_set input_mask;
+
+ sock = PQsocket(conn);
+
+ if (sock &lt; 0)
+ break; /* shouldn't happen */
+
+ FD_ZERO(&amp;input_mask);
+ FD_SET(sock, &amp;input_mask);
+
+ if (select(sock + 1, &amp;input_mask, NULL, NULL, NULL) &lt; 0)
+ {
+ fprintf(stderr, "select() failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+ exit_nicely(conn);
+ }
+
+ /* Now check for input */
+ PQconsumeInput(conn);
+ while ((notify = PQnotifies(conn)) != NULL)
+ {
+ fprintf(stderr,
+ "ASYNC NOTIFY of '%s' received from backend PID %d\n",
+ notify-&gt;relname, notify-&gt;be_pid);
+ PQfreemem(notify);
+ nnotifies++;
+ PQconsumeInput(conn);
+ }
+ }
+
+ fprintf(stderr, "Done.\n");
+
+ /* close the connection to the database and cleanup */
+ PQfinish(conn);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+</pre></div></div><br class="example-break" /><div class="example" id="LIBPQ-EXAMPLE-3"><p class="title"><strong>Example 34.3. <span class="application">libpq</span> Example Program 3</strong></p><div class="example-contents"><pre class="programlisting">
+
+/*
+ * src/test/examples/testlibpq3.c
+ *
+ *
+ * testlibpq3.c
+ * Test out-of-line parameters and binary I/O.
+ *
+ * Before running this, populate a database with the following commands
+ * (provided in src/test/examples/testlibpq3.sql):
+ *
+ * CREATE SCHEMA testlibpq3;
+ * SET search_path = testlibpq3;
+ * SET standard_conforming_strings = ON;
+ * CREATE TABLE test1 (i int4, t text, b bytea);
+ * INSERT INTO test1 values (1, 'joe''s place', '\000\001\002\003\004');
+ * INSERT INTO test1 values (2, 'ho there', '\004\003\002\001\000');
+ *
+ * The expected output is:
+ *
+ * tuple 0: got
+ * i = (4 bytes) 1
+ * t = (11 bytes) 'joe's place'
+ * b = (5 bytes) \000\001\002\003\004
+ *
+ * tuple 0: got
+ * i = (4 bytes) 2
+ * t = (8 bytes) 'ho there'
+ * b = (5 bytes) \004\003\002\001\000
+ */
+
+#ifdef WIN32
+#include &lt;windows.h&gt;
+#endif
+
+#include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
+#include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;
+#include &lt;stdint.h&gt;
+#include &lt;string.h&gt;
+#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
+#include "libpq-fe.h"
+
+/* for ntohl/htonl */
+#include &lt;netinet/in.h&gt;
+#include &lt;arpa/inet.h&gt;
+
+
+static void
+exit_nicely(PGconn *conn)
+{
+ PQfinish(conn);
+ exit(1);
+}
+
+/*
+ * This function prints a query result that is a binary-format fetch from
+ * a table defined as in the comment above. We split it out because the
+ * main() function uses it twice.
+ */
+static void
+show_binary_results(PGresult *res)
+{
+ int i,
+ j;
+ int i_fnum,
+ t_fnum,
+ b_fnum;
+
+ /* Use PQfnumber to avoid assumptions about field order in result */
+ i_fnum = PQfnumber(res, "i");
+ t_fnum = PQfnumber(res, "t");
+ b_fnum = PQfnumber(res, "b");
+
+ for (i = 0; i &lt; PQntuples(res); i++)
+ {
+ char *iptr;
+ char *tptr;
+ char *bptr;
+ int blen;
+ int ival;
+
+ /* Get the field values (we ignore possibility they are null!) */
+ iptr = PQgetvalue(res, i, i_fnum);
+ tptr = PQgetvalue(res, i, t_fnum);
+ bptr = PQgetvalue(res, i, b_fnum);
+
+ /*
+ * The binary representation of INT4 is in network byte order, which
+ * we'd better coerce to the local byte order.
+ */
+ ival = ntohl(*((uint32_t *) iptr));
+
+ /*
+ * The binary representation of TEXT is, well, text, and since libpq
+ * was nice enough to append a zero byte to it, it'll work just fine
+ * as a C string.
+ *
+ * The binary representation of BYTEA is a bunch of bytes, which could
+ * include embedded nulls so we have to pay attention to field length.
+ */
+ blen = PQgetlength(res, i, b_fnum);
+
+ printf("tuple %d: got\n", i);
+ printf(" i = (%d bytes) %d\n",
+ PQgetlength(res, i, i_fnum), ival);
+ printf(" t = (%d bytes) '%s'\n",
+ PQgetlength(res, i, t_fnum), tptr);
+ printf(" b = (%d bytes) ", blen);
+ for (j = 0; j &lt; blen; j++)
+ printf("\\%03o", bptr[j]);
+ printf("\n\n");
+ }
+}
+
+int
+main(int argc, char **argv)
+{
+ const char *conninfo;
+ PGconn *conn;
+ PGresult *res;
+ const char *paramValues[1];
+ int paramLengths[1];
+ int paramFormats[1];
+ uint32_t binaryIntVal;
+
+ /*
+ * 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 &gt; 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, "SET search_path = testlibpq3");
+ if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_COMMAND_OK)
+ {
+ fprintf(stderr, "SET failed: %s", PQerrorMessage(conn));
+ PQclear(res);
+ exit_nicely(conn);
+ }
+ PQclear(res);
+
+ /*
+ * The point of this program is to illustrate use of PQexecParams() with
+ * out-of-line parameters, as well as binary transmission of data.
+ *
+ * This first example transmits the parameters as text, but receives the
+ * results in binary format. By using out-of-line parameters we can avoid
+ * a lot of tedious mucking about with quoting and escaping, even though
+ * the data is text. Notice how we don't have to do anything special with
+ * the quote mark in the parameter value.
+ */
+
+ /* Here is our out-of-line parameter value */
+ paramValues[0] = "joe's place";
+
+ res = PQexecParams(conn,
+ "SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE t = $1",
+ 1, /* one param */
+ NULL, /* let the backend deduce param type */
+ paramValues,
+ NULL, /* don't need param lengths since text */
+ NULL, /* default to all text params */
+ 1); /* ask for binary results */
+
+ if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK)
+ {
+ fprintf(stderr, "SELECT failed: %s", PQerrorMessage(conn));
+ PQclear(res);
+ exit_nicely(conn);
+ }
+
+ show_binary_results(res);
+
+ PQclear(res);
+
+ /*
+ * In this second example we transmit an integer parameter in binary form,
+ * and again retrieve the results in binary form.
+ *
+ * Although we tell PQexecParams we are letting the backend deduce
+ * parameter type, we really force the decision by casting the parameter
+ * symbol in the query text. This is a good safety measure when sending
+ * binary parameters.
+ */
+
+ /* Convert integer value "2" to network byte order */
+ binaryIntVal = htonl((uint32_t) 2);
+
+ /* Set up parameter arrays for PQexecParams */
+ paramValues[0] = (char *) &amp;binaryIntVal;
+ paramLengths[0] = sizeof(binaryIntVal);
+ paramFormats[0] = 1; /* binary */
+
+ res = PQexecParams(conn,
+ "SELECT * FROM test1 WHERE i = $1::int4",
+ 1, /* one param */
+ NULL, /* let the backend deduce param type */
+ paramValues,
+ paramLengths,
+ paramFormats,
+ 1); /* ask for binary results */
+
+ if (PQresultStatus(res) != PGRES_TUPLES_OK)
+ {
+ fprintf(stderr, "SELECT failed: %s", PQerrorMessage(conn));
+ PQclear(res);
+ exit_nicely(conn);
+ }
+
+ show_binary_results(res);
+
+ PQclear(res);
+
+ /* close the connection to the database and cleanup */
+ PQfinish(conn);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+</pre></div></div><br class="example-break" /></div><div class="navfooter"><hr /><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="libpq-build.html" title="34.21. Building libpq Programs">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="libpq.html" title="Chapter 34. libpq — C Library">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="largeobjects.html" title="Chapter 35. Large Objects">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">34.21. Building <span class="application">libpq</span> Programs </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="index.html" title="PostgreSQL 15.4 Documentation">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Chapter 35. Large Objects</td></tr></table></div></body></html> \ No newline at end of file