Re: ODBC constructs

On 5/20/2013 10:11 PM, Dev Kumkar wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
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> If you wish to work in C,then,I would suggest libpq.I would wait
> for more replies on this,as I have little knowledge
> about psqlODBC.
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> Thanks for the comments. Yes objective is to work in C and found libpq
> useful but am not sure about psqlODBC.
> It would be really great to get comments from community here regarding
> comparison between both of them and also performance perspective.
> Based on my reading so far libpq is good from performance perspective.

libpq lets you talk directly to postgres in its native tongue.

ODBC implements a sort of abstraction. IMHO, its like trying to type
with mittens on.

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