is there a vendor independent C API for DB development?

Matthew Kennedy writes:

Does anyone know of a RDBMS vendor independent C API which supports
PostgreSQL? I'm looking for something similar to Perl DBI and Java's
JDBC, but in C.

Embedded SQL, a.k.a ECPG in the PostgreSQL case. See Programmer's Guide
and ecpg(1). Embedded SQL is a bit unusual at first glance -- because of
the "embedded" thing -- but it works and it is supported by other DBs.

There's a new standard called SQL CLI (call level interface) which has
more of a libpq feeling to it, but PostgreSQL doesn't have it and I don't
think too many other products do either.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://yi.org/peter-e/

Matthew Kennedy wrote:
:
: Does anyone know of a RDBMS vendor independent C API which supports
: PostgreSQL? I'm looking for something similar to Perl DBI and Java's
: JDBC, but in C.
May be ODBC is what you search?

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Andrew W. Nosenko (awn@bcs.zp.ua)