On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:18, Joao Ferreira gmail
<joao.miguel.c.ferreira@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I need to write an application in C to read the list of databases
> currently in the server. very much like a "psql -l"...
select datname as database from pg_database;
> but I need it in C ! I never used C before to access PG.
>
> the libpq API seems a bit scary ! Is there anything, shipped with
> postgresql, other than libpq that would make my life simpler ?
Maybe ecpg http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ecpg.html ? I
also hear good things about libpqtypes making some things easier
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/libpqtypes/.