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3 Large objects are not directly supported by ECPG, but ECPG
4 application can manipulate large objects through the libpq large
5 object functions, obtaining the necessary <code class="type">PGconn</code>
6 object by calling the <code class="function">ECPGget_PGconn()</code>
7 function. (However, use of
8 the <code class="function">ECPGget_PGconn()</code> function and touching
9 <code class="type">PGconn</code> objects directly should be done very carefully
10 and ideally not mixed with other ECPG database access calls.)
12 For more details about the <code class="function">ECPGget_PGconn()</code>, see
13 <a class="xref" href="ecpg-library.html" title="34.11. Library Functions">Section 34.11</a>. For information about the large
14 object function interface, see <a class="xref" href="largeobjects.html" title="Chapter 33. Large Objects">Chapter 33</a>.
16 Large object functions have to be called in a transaction block, so
17 when autocommit is off, <code class="command">BEGIN</code> commands have to
20 <a class="xref" href="ecpg-lo.html#ECPG-LO-EXAMPLE" title="Example 34.2. ECPG Program Accessing Large Objects">Example 34.2</a> shows an example program that
21 illustrates how to create, write, and read a large object in an
23 </p><div class="example" id="ECPG-LO-EXAMPLE"><p class="title"><strong>Example 34.2. ECPG Program Accessing Large Objects</strong></p><div class="example-contents"><pre class="programlisting">
24 #include <stdio.h>
25 #include <stdlib.h>
26 #include <libpq-fe.h>
27 #include <libpq/libpq-fs.h>
29 EXEC SQL WHENEVER SQLERROR STOP;
42 memset(buf, 1, buflen);
44 EXEC SQL CONNECT TO testdb AS con1;
45 EXEC SQL SELECT pg_catalog.set_config('search_path', '', false); EXEC SQL COMMIT;
47 conn = ECPGget_PGconn("con1");
48 printf("conn = %p\n", conn);
51 loid = lo_create(conn, 0);
53 printf("lo_create() failed: %s", PQerrorMessage(conn));
55 printf("loid = %d\n", loid);
58 fd = lo_open(conn, loid, INV_READ|INV_WRITE);
60 printf("lo_open() failed: %s", PQerrorMessage(conn));
62 printf("fd = %d\n", fd);
64 rc = lo_write(conn, fd, buf, buflen);
66 printf("lo_write() failed\n");
68 rc = lo_close(conn, fd);
70 printf("lo_close() failed: %s", PQerrorMessage(conn));
73 fd = lo_open(conn, loid, INV_READ);
75 printf("lo_open() failed: %s", PQerrorMessage(conn));
77 printf("fd = %d\n", fd);
79 rc = lo_read(conn, fd, buf2, buflen);
81 printf("lo_read() failed\n");
83 rc = lo_close(conn, fd);
85 printf("lo_close() failed: %s", PQerrorMessage(conn));
88 rc = memcmp(buf, buf2, buflen);
89 printf("memcmp() = %d\n", rc);
92 rc = lo_unlink(conn, loid);
94 printf("lo_unlink() failed: %s", PQerrorMessage(conn));
97 EXEC SQL DISCONNECT ALL;
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