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NAME

       ecpg - embedded SQL C preprocessor

SYNOPSIS

       ecpg [ option... ] file...

DESCRIPTION

       ecpg is the embedded SQL preprocessor for C programs. It converts C programs with embedded SQL statements to normal C code by replacing the
       SQL invocations with special function calls. The output files can then be processed with any C compiler tool chain.

       ecpg will convert each input file given on the command line to the corresponding C output file. Input files preferrably have the  extension
       .pgc, in which case the extension will be replaced by .c to determine the output file name. If the extension of the input file is not .pgc,
       then the output file name is computed by appending .c to the full file name.  The output file name can also  be	overridden  using  the	-o
       option.

       This reference page does not describe the embedded SQL language.  See the PostgreSQL Programmer's Guide for that.

OPTIONS

       ecpg accepts the following command-line arguments:

       -c     Automatically generate C code from SQL code. Currently, this works for EXEC SQL TYPE.

       -D symbol
	      Define a C preprocessor symbol.

       -I directory
	      Specify  an  additional  include	path,  used  to  find  files  included	via  EXEC SQL INCLUDE. Defaults are . (current directory),
	      /usr/local/include, the PostgreSQL include directory which is defined  at  compile  time	(default:  /usr/local/pgsql/include),  and
	      /usr/include, in that order.

       -o filename
	      Specifies that ecpg should write all its output to the given filename.

       -t     Turn  on autocommit of transactions. In this mode, each query is automatically committed unless it is inside an explicit transaction
	      block. In the default mode, queries are committed only when EXEC SQL COMMIT is issued.

       -v     Print additional information including the version and the include path.

       ---help
	      Show a brief summary of the command usage, then exit.

       --version
	      Output version information, then exit.

NOTES

       When compiling the preprocessed C code files, the compiler needs to be able to find the ECPG header files in the PostgreSQL include  direc-
       tory. Therefore, one might have to use the -I option when invoking the compiler (e.g., -I/usr/local/pgsql/include).

       Programs  using	C code with embedded SQL have to be linked against the libecpg library, for example using the flags -L/usr/local/pgsql/lib
       -lecpg.

       The value of either of these directories that is appropriate for the installation can be found out using pg_config(1).

EXAMPLES

       If you have an embedded SQL C source file named prog1.pgc, you can create an executable program using the following sequence of commands:

       ecpg prog1.pgc
       cc -I/usr/local/pgsql/include -c prog1.c
       cc -o prog1 prog1.o -L/usr/local/pgsql/lib -lecpg

SEE ALSO

       PostgreSQL Programmer's Guide for a more detailed description of the embedded SQL interface

Application							    2002-11-22								   ECPG(1)