Programming PostGreSQL - making myself clearer ;-).

Hi all (again :),

Maybe I should have made myself more clear ...

I'm after 2 different solutions:
1. A simple to use but fast way of writing some very basic programs to store
data in a db from some ASCII files. I have a number of tabled in the
database which need to be searched for each record, I need to store. As in:
Find a where a.x = substring( new-rec.y, 2, 4 ). If found -> new-rec.ref =
a.ref, if not find another a where ... etc.

I suppose, I can do that, using C and libpgeasy or something like that. I
have to wrap my mind around C once again, after 10 years of absence.

2. A language which I can use to write code on people's desktop machines.
The desktop machines are mostly PCs, but there are also a considerable
number of Macs. I was thinking about VB and the PGSQL driver (which works
well) but then, VB doesn't support Mac. I am now looking into RealBasic, a
Mac product which is able to compile code to run directly under Win
9x/2k/etc. Without the need of a compile session on Windows. The problem is
that I don't seem to find an ODBC driver to run on a Mac. Can somebody
pleeease tell me where I can get a Mac ODBC driver for PostGreSQL? How can I
compile the Windows one on a Mac? I have Codewarrior 3 available (although
not installed) but I doubt that it compiles 'out of the box'.

Please help ...

Best regards,
Chris

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