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1. Re: [GENERAL] libq++ and security help

   Peter Mount <pgsqlgen@retep.org.uk> — 1998-06-16T05:50:12Z

   On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Bruce Tong wrote:
   
   > > 	I'm using libq++ for a C++ frontend; the problem is I need to have 
   > > many users who don't have accounts on the server. I tried to find 
   > > information on connecting to the database specifying the username and 
   > > password, but it looks like the libq++ functions rely on the environment 
   > > variables. 
   > 
   > This seems to be the same for LIBPQ. (The non-C++ version of the library.)
   > Thus, I'm curious what the answer is in this case as well.
   
   I'm not sure about libq++, but for libpq, you can do this by using
   PQconnectdb(). The easiest way, is to look at the source to psql, which
   uses libpq itself.
   
   PGconn *db = PQconnectdb("host=myhost user=myuser password=mypassword port=myport");
   
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2. Re: [GENERAL] libq++ and security help

   Bruce Tong <zztong@laxmi.ev.net> — 1998-06-16T11:59:31Z

   > I'm not sure about libq++, but for libpq, you can do this by using
   > PQconnectdb(). The easiest way, is to look at the source to psql, which
   > uses libpq itself.
   > 
   > PGconn *db = PQconnectdb("host=myhost user=myuser password=mypassword port=myport");
   
   Whoa, neat. I guess I'm going to have to start looking at the source. That
   function isn't in the documentation for LIBPQ. Thanks for the pointer.
   
   
   Bruce Tong
   Systems Programmer
   Electronic Vision / FITNE
   
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