Zild Database Library
Introduction
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The Zild Database Library implements a small, fast and easy to use
database API with the following features: C database library - connect
to multiple database systems - zero runtime configuration, connect using
URL scheme - Thread safe Connection Pooling and exceptions handling.
This database library is part of the Zild Application Server and is
released as Open Source with the hope that others may find it useful in
their Open Source Work.
System requirements
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* Memory and Disk space
A minimum of 1 megabytes RAM are required and around 500KB of free
disk space. You may need more RAM depending on how many Connections
the library should create.
* ANSI-C Compiler and Build System
You will need an ANSI-C99 compiler installed to build the library.
The GNU C compiler (GCC) from the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is
recommended. In addition, your PATH must contain basic build tools
such as make and flex and database configuration scripts for MySQL
and PostgreSQL, that is, mysql_config and pg_config respectively.
* Database systems
This Software supports the following database systems,
- MySQL - version 4.1 or above
- PostgreSQL - version 8.0 or above
- SQLite - version 3.0 or above
- Oracle - version 10 or above
Client libraries for at least one of these database systems must
be installed on the host on which this Software will be built.
Installation
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This library utilize the GNU auto-tools and provided the requirements
above are satisfied, building the library is conducted via the
standard;
./configure
make
make install
Use ./configure --help for build and install options. By default, the
library is built with support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. You may
change this with the --without-<database> options to ./configure. E.g.
--without-mysql, --without-postgresql or --without-sqlite
To verify the library and run unit tests, do 'make verify'. You may
also want to take a look at test/select.c for an example on how to use
the library.
Note that unit tests cannot be built if the --enable-protected
configure switch where used. This switch is used to package protect
non-API objects in the library. It is strongly recommended to build the
library with --enable-protected as it will be faster and reduce the risk
for name symbol interposing
API Documentation
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The directory doc/api-docs/ and index.html contains the full API
documentation for the library, generated by Doxygen. Start by reading
the documentation for ConnectionPool.h
Exceptions handling
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The library implements an elegant solution for thread-safe exceptions
handling. Use of exceptions frees programmers from the tedious return
code idiom for dealing with errors. The API documents every method that
can throw an exception. Methods that can throw an exception should be
called from inside a try-block.
Link and include
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Clients may use the following meta interface to include libzdb API
interfaces;
#include <zdb.h>
Alternatively, libzdb API interfaces can be included separately
as needed.
Compile and link with libzdb;
gcc -o select select.c -L/<prefix>/lib -lzdb -I/<prefix>/include/zdb
On some systems you may have to explicit link with -lpthread and
set LD_LIBRARY_PATH if libzdb was installed in a non-standard location
License Notes
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This Software product is licensed under the GNU General Public License
version 3. You can use this Software product free of charge to develop,
use and distribute Open Source application programs, including reusable
components and other software that link with the Software. You may also
use and modify any example source code included with the Software for
any purpose.
See the file COPYING accompanying the Software for details.
Reporting a bug
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If you believe you have found a bug, please send this information,
plus information about the machine and OS platform used along with a
description of the problem to bugs-libzdb@tildeslash.com
Questions and support
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If you have questions or comments about the software or documentation
please subscribe to the libzdb general mailing list and post your
questions there.
http://www.tildeslash.com/mailman/listinfo/libzdb-general
Contact information
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The Zild Database Library is a product of Tildeslash Ltd. a company
registered in Norway and in United Kingdom.
For further information about this Software, please use the following
contact information.
E-mail:
info@tildeslash.com
Internet:
http://www.tildeslash.com/
Acknowledgments
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The design of this library was inspired by principles put forth by
David R. Hanson <drh@drhanson.net> in his excellent book
"C Interfaces and Implementations". You can learn more about this
book here http://www.cs.princeton.edu/software/cii/
