Re: Embedded SQL with Postgres

2005-08-01 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 03:13:54PM +0200, Stephan Meyen wrote: > Gregory Seidman wrote: > > 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... According to

Re: Embedded SQL with Postgres

2005-08-01 Thread Stephan Meyen
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-post

Re: Embedded SQL with Postgres

2005-08-01 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 06:34:47PM +0200, Stephan Meyen wrote: } I installed postgresql (7.4.7) on a Debian testing (PowerPC). I'm going } to use embedded SQL. I found the ecpg libraries as well as the headers, } but I cannot find any program to precompiele my *.pgc files. The } Postgres docs say t