Re: [open-cobol-list] Postgres

[David Essex]

emre wrote:
> Now I have my application ported/running under OpenCobol...
>
> I'd like to use Postgres and noticed these two points in the FAQ
>
> # Rumours of a potential Postgres layer have also been heard.
> # *AND* as a /thing to watch for/, one of the good people of the OpenCOBOL 
> communinity has written a layer that converts READ and WRITE verbage to 
> SQL calls /at run time/. More on this as it progresses.
>
> Are there any updates on these points?

AFAIK, there is no COBOL SQL pre-processor for Postgres.
There is a C SQL pre-processor which is included with the Postgres
distribution.

So you have 3 choices.
Call the Postgres API directly form COBOL programs.
Call the Postgres API in-directly form some C wrapper functions, which
are then called from COBOL programs.
Call some C wrapper functions, which have embedded C SQL statements.

Cheers