Thread: help:steps needed to get the content of table from the database.. .

Hi all...
I am using libpq interface to create a C application which is taking the
needed data from
a database....

I created a database and added 3 tables to it named weather, cities and
teamdatabase.
I make the connection with database ...
After that i tried to execute the command SELECT * FROM weather by giving as
res = PQexec(conn,"SELECT * FROM weather");

what are the steps needed to get the content of table from the database...

can any one of you give me few guide lines....

Thanking in advance
With regards
smitha

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> I created a database and added 3 tables to it named weather, cities and
> teamdatabase.
> I make the connection with database ...
> After that i tried to execute the command SELECT * FROM weather by giving as
> res = PQexec(conn,"SELECT * FROM weather");

Further you could use,
1) PQresultStatus(res)
2) PQntuples(res)
3) PQnfields(res)
4) PQgetvalue(res, n, n)

For details, please refer the below link:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/view.php?version=7.3&idoc=1&file=programmer-client.html

Refer Asynchronous Query Processing in the above link for even more
specific details.

regards,
bhuvaneswaran

"A.Bhuvaneswaran" <bhuvan@symonds.net> writes:
> Further you could use,
> 1) PQresultStatus(res)
> 2) PQntuples(res)
> 3) PQnfields(res)
> 4) PQgetvalue(res, n, n)

> For details, please refer the below link:

Also look at the example programs that come with libpq.  In the source
distribution they are in src/test/examples/.  I am not sure whether they
are included in any binary RPMs though, or where the RPMs put them if
they do have 'em ...

            regards, tom lane