Dan Sugalski wrote:If someone'd like to take a shot at making a nice OO wrapper for Postgres, especially if they'd like to upgrade the postgres interface to 7.4, I would very much appreciate it. It'd be a nice demo, and a good start on a DBI module for us. (And yeah, there's an element of "do my job for me" here. Sorry 'bout that)
Could you be more specific. If part of what you want is the following files updated to reflect libpq-7.4 then I am more than willing to do it for you.
parrot/library/postgres.declarations parrot/library/postgres.pasm
Although I imagine there is more to it than this ;-)
Yep, though that's a big part of it. postgres.pasm is generated from postgres.declarations, FWIW--there's a script in the library somewhere.
As for the OO wrapper. Are you after a pasm library that takes advantage of objects and hides the details of libpq-fe.h? I think I could start something if no one else has already started anything.
Yep, that's what I was thinking of. If you take a look, there are parts of the interface that are somewhat awkward to use from a higher level -- the record fetching code is definitely skewed down to the bottom end of things. Certainly fine enough, but it'd be nice to be able to get back an array or hash for a record rather than having to query individual fields. :)
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