CLSQL Users' Guide

Kevin M. Rosenberg

Maintainer of CLSQL

Pierre R. Mai

Author of Original MaiSQL Code

$Date: 2002/03/23 15:17:43 $

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  • CLSQL is Copyright © 2002 by Kevin M. Rosenberg and Copyright © 1999-2001 by Pierre R. Mai.

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Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
Purpose
History
Prerequisites
Defsystem
UFFI
Supported Common Lisp Implementation
Supported SQL Implementation
Installation
Ensure Defsystem is loaded
Build C helper libraries
Load UFFI
Load CLSQL modules
Run test suite
I. CLSQL
CLSQL-CONDITION -- the super-type of all CLSQL-specific conditions
CLSQL-ERROR -- the super-type of all CLSQL-specific errors
CLSQL-SIMPLE-ERROR -- Unspecific simple CLSQL errors
CLSQL-WARNING -- the super-type of all CLSQL-specific warnings
CLSQL-SIMPLE-WARNING -- Unspecific simple CLSQL warnings
CLSQL-INVALID-SPEC-ERROR -- condition representing errors because of invalid connection specifications
CLSQL-CONNECT-ERROR -- condition representing errors during connection
CLSQL-SQL-ERROR -- condition representing errors during query or command execution
CLSQL-EXISTS-CONDITION -- condition indicating situations arising because of existing connections
CLSQL-EXISTS-WARNING -- condition representing warnings arising because of existing connections
CLSQL-EXISTS-ERROR -- condition representing errors arising because of existing connections
CLSQL-CLOSED-ERROR -- condition representing errors because the database has already been closed
*DEFAULT-DATABASE-TYPE* -- The default database type to use
*INITIALIZED-DATABASE-TYPES* -- List of all initialized database types
INITIALIZE-DATABASE-TYPE -- Initializes a database type
*CONNECT-IF-EXISTS* -- Default value for the if-exists parameter of connect.
CONNECTED-DATABASES -- Return the list of active database objects.
*DEFAULT-DATABASE* -- The default database object to use
DATABASE -- The super-type of all CLSQL databases
CLOSED-DATABASE -- The class representing all closed CLSQL databases
DATABASE-NAME -- Get the name of a database object
FIND-DATABASE -- Locate a database object through it's name.
CONNECT -- create a connection to a database
DISCONNECT -- close a database connection
DISCONNECT-POOLED -- closes all pooled database connections
DATABASE-NAME-FROM-SPEC -- Return the database name string corresponding to the given connection specification.
EXECUTE-COMMAND -- Execute an SQL command which returns no values.
QUERY -- Execute an SQL query and return the tuples as a list
MAP-QUERY -- Map a function over all the tuples from a query
DO-QUERY -- Iterate over all the tuples of a query
LOOP-FOR-AS-TUPLES -- Iterate over all the tuples of a query via a loop clause
II. CLSQL-SYS
DATABASE-INITIALIZE-DATABASE-TYPE -- Back-end part of initialize-database-type.
A. Database Back-ends
MySQL
Libraries
Initialization
Connection Specification
AODBC
Libraries
Initialization
Connection Specification
PostgreSQL
Libraries
Initialization
Connection Specification
PostgreSQL Socket
Libraries
Initialization
Connection Specification
Glossary
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