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diff --git a/databases/postgresql-libpqxx30/pkg-descr b/databases/postgresql-libpqxx30/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..783a2761c86a --- /dev/null +++ b/databases/postgresql-libpqxx30/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +Welcome to libpqxx, a C++ API to the PostgreSQL database management +system. + +There are many similar libraries for PostgreSQL and for other +databases, some of them database-independent. Most of these, however, +are fairly C-like in their programming style, and fail to take +advantage of the full power of the C++ language as it has matured +since the acceptance of the Standard in 1996. What libpqxx brings you +is effective use of templates to reduce the inconvenience of dealing +with type conversions; of standard C++ strings to keep you from having +to worry about buffer allocation and overflow attacks; of exceptions +to take the tedious and error-prone plumbing around error handling out +of your hands; of constructors and destructors to bring resource +management under control; and even basic object-orientation to give +you some extra reliability features that would be hard to get with +most other database interfaces. + +WWW: http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/libpqxx/ |