Thread: libpq++

libpq++

From

"David Joyner"

Date:

14 January 2002, 12:26:09

I recently got the latest source from cvs.  I think there's a bug in
pgtransdb.cc.  The pgCommitted flag will never be true after the implicit
BeginTransaction called by creating a PgCursor.

I ran testlibpq3.cc with logging enabled -- sure enough when using a cursor
ABORT is always executed in PgTransaction destructor.  When fetching this
has no effect, but still.

Am I missing something?  Does one need to somehow explicitly call
EndTransaction?  If so, how?  That's a protected member, and nothing in
PgCursor seems to call it.

Also, PgCursor is the only module I can see that has std:: namespace
dependency.  Why?

Thanks for your time
Dave Joyner


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Re: libpq++

From

"David Joyner"

Date:

14 January 2002, 21:19:55

Okay, I see your point, especially your comments on the object hierarchy.
Because here's the problem (someone must have seen this already):

PgCursor c("host=localhost", "foo");
c.Declare("select * from foo where something=somethingelse");
c.Fetch();
for (int i = 0; i < c.Tuples(); i++)
{   if (something is true)  {    c.ExecCommandOk("update bar set something=something where
something=somethingelse") )     }
}
c.Close();// just rolled back all those updates, but have no idea why!

Thanks
Dave

...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David Joyner" <d4ljoyn@yahoo.com>
Cc: <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] libpq++

> "David Joyner" <d4ljoyn@yahoo.com> writes:
> > I recently got the latest source from cvs.  I think there's a bug in
> > pgtransdb.cc.  The pgCommitted flag will never be true after the
implicit
> > BeginTransaction called by creating a PgCursor.
>
> This code is pretty grotty, but that particular issue I don't think is a
> problem.  AFAICS, since a PgTransaction object opens its own database
> connection (yipes!), the only thing ever done in a PgCursor's
> transaction will be to create and read from the cursor.  So whether we
> commit or abort hardly matters.
>
> The real bletcherousness is the overhead of establishing a separate
> connection for each transaction.
>
> Fixing this would probably entail a wholesale redesign of PgCursor,
> PgTransaction, and friends, and would break any applications that are
> using them successfully :-(
>
> There is someone working on a brand-new C++ interface library which
> perhaps will avoid all the mistakes that were made in libpq++.  You
> might want to pitch in with that work.  Check the recent archives
> for (I think) libpqxx.
>
> regards, tom lane

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Re: libpq++

From

Tom Lane

Date:

14 January 2002, 21:20:09

"David Joyner" <d4ljoyn@yahoo.com> writes:
> I recently got the latest source from cvs.  I think there's a bug in
> pgtransdb.cc.  The pgCommitted flag will never be true after the implicit
> BeginTransaction called by creating a PgCursor.

This code is pretty grotty, but that particular issue I don't think is a
problem.  AFAICS, since a PgTransaction object opens its own database
connection (yipes!), the only thing ever done in a PgCursor's
transaction will be to create and read from the cursor.  So whether we
commit or abort hardly matters.

The real bletcherousness is the overhead of establishing a separate
connection for each transaction.

Fixing this would probably entail a wholesale redesign of PgCursor,
PgTransaction, and friends, and would break any applications that are
using them successfully :-(

There is someone working on a brand-new C++ interface library which
perhaps will avoid all the mistakes that were made in libpq++.  You
might want to pitch in with that work.  Check the recent archives
for (I think) libpqxx.
        regards, tom lane

Re: libpq++

From

Tom Lane

Date:

14 January 2002, 21:39:18

"David Joyner" <d4ljoyn@yahoo.com> writes:
> Okay, I see your point, especially your comments on the object hierarchy.
> Because here's the problem (someone must have seen this already):

> PgCursor c("host=localhost", "foo");
> c.Declare("select * from foo where something=somethingelse");
> c.Fetch();
> for (int i = 0; i < c.Tuples(); i++)
> {
>     if (something is true)
>    {
>      c.ExecCommandOk("update bar set something=something where
> something=somethingelse") )
>       }
> }
> c.Close();
>  // just rolled back all those updates, but have no idea why!

I'd argue that c.ExecCommandOk() is a bogus operation for a PgCursor
object to be providing... a cursor is not something that should be
able to execute SQL queries unrelated to the cursor.

It would make more sense to me for PgCursor to have open/fetch/close
operations and not much else, and for it to be created with a reference
to an already-open Connection object that provides the conduit for the
cursor commands.  To make this work, probably the Connection object
would have to keep track of whether the backend is inside a transaction
block, and not allow the transaction to be closed as long as there were
live PgCursors attached to it.
        regards, tom lane

Re: libpq++

From

"David Joyner"

Date:

14 January 2002, 22:39:12

I agree with you.  I guess the person that wrote it is not here to defend
themselves, so I'll just work around.

Thanks
Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "David Joyner" <d4ljoyn@yahoo.com>
Cc: <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] libpq++


> "David Joyner" <d4ljoyn@yahoo.com> writes:
> > Okay, I see your point, especially your comments on the object
hierarchy.
> > Because here's the problem (someone must have seen this already):
>
> > PgCursor c("host=localhost", "foo");
> > c.Declare("select * from foo where something=somethingelse");
> > c.Fetch();
> > for (int i = 0; i < c.Tuples(); i++)
> > {
> >     if (something is true)
> >    {
> >      c.ExecCommandOk("update bar set something=something where
> > something=somethingelse") )
> >       }
> > }
> > c.Close();
> >  // just rolled back all those updates, but have no idea why!
>
> I'd argue that c.ExecCommandOk() is a bogus operation for a PgCursor
> object to be providing... a cursor is not something that should be
> able to execute SQL queries unrelated to the cursor.
>
> It would make more sense to me for PgCursor to have open/fetch/close
> operations and not much else, and for it to be created with a reference
> to an already-open Connection object that provides the conduit for the
> cursor commands.  To make this work, probably the Connection object
> would have to keep track of whether the backend is inside a transaction
> block, and not allow the transaction to be closed as long as there were
> live PgCursors attached to it.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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Re: libpq++

From

jtv

Date:

21 January 2002, 10:11:34

On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 07:16:41PM -0500, David Joyner wrote:
> I agree with you.  I guess the person that wrote it is not here to defend
> themselves, so I'll just work around.

Alternatively, you may want to look at libpqxx.  Written as a replacement
for libpq++, it has a more modern interface and--knock on wood--addresses
each of the issues discussed here.  You lose the "convenience" (and the
inflexibility) of having transactions, connections, and query results all
reside in a single object, and gain the convenience of using exception
handling instead of manual result checking.

You can find it at
 http://members.ams.chello.nl/j.vermeulen31/proj-libpqxx.html

I hope someday this could be included in the main PostgreSQL source tree.

Jeroen