<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >pg_query</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="Manual de PHP" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Funciones de PostgreSQL" HREF="ref.pgsql.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="pg_put_line" HREF="function.pg-put-line.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="pg_result_error" HREF="function.pg-result-error.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >Manual de PHP</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.pg-put-line.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.pg-result-error.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Siguiente</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.pg-query" ></A >pg_query</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN64660" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 >= 4.2.0)</P >pg_query -- Execute a query</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN64663" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >resource <B CLASS="methodname" >pg_query</B > ( resource connection, string query)<BR ></BR ><P > <B CLASS="function" >pg_query()</B > returns a query result resource if query could be executed. It returns <TT CLASS="constant" ><B >FALSE</B ></TT > on failure or if connection is not a valid connection. Details about the error can be retrieved using the <A HREF="function.pg-last-error.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_last_error()</B ></A > function if connection is valid. <A HREF="function.pg-last-error.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_last_error()</B ></A > sends an SQL statement to the PostgreSQL database specified by the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >connection</I ></TT > resource. The <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >connection</I ></TT > must be a valid connection that was returned by <A HREF="function.pg-connect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_connect()</B ></A > or <A HREF="function.pg-pconnect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_pconnect()</B ></A >. The return value of this function is an query result resource to be used to access the results from other PostgreSQL functions such as <A HREF="function.pg-fetch-array.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_fetch_array()</B ></A >. <DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Nota: </B > <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >connection</I ></TT > is a optional parameter for <B CLASS="function" >pg_query()</B >. If <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >connection</I ></TT > is not set, default connection is used. Default connection is the last connection made by <A HREF="function.pg-connect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_connect()</B ></A > or <A HREF="function.pg-pconnect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_pconnect()</B ></A >. </P ><P > Although <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >connection</I ></TT > can be omitted, it is not recommended, since it could be a cause of hard to find bug in script. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV > </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Nota: </B > This function used to be called <TT CLASS="literal" >pg_exec()</TT >. <TT CLASS="literal" >pg_exec()</TT > is still available for compatibility reasons but users are encouraged to use the newer name. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ><P > See also <A HREF="function.pg-connect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_connect()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.pg-pconnect.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_pconnect()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.pg-fetch-array.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_fetch_array()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.pg-fetch-object.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_fetch_object()</B ></A >, <A HREF="function.pg-num-rows.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_num_rows()</B ></A >, and <A HREF="function.pg-affected-rows.html" ><B CLASS="function" >pg_affected_rows()</B ></A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.pg-put-line.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Anterior</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Inicio</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.pg-result-error.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Siguiente</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >pg_put_line</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.pgsql.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Subir</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >pg_result_error</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >