Overview

LuaSQL is a simple interface from Lua to a DBMS. It enables a Lua program to:

Connect to ODBC and PostgreSQL databases;
Execute arbitrary SQL statements;
Retrieve results in a row-by-row cursor fashion.

Current version

LuaSQL version 2.0 (for Lua 5.0) is now available for download! The PostgreSQL driver has been tested on Linux and MacOS X, and the ODBC driver has been tested on Windows (SQLServer and Microsoft Access drivers) and on Linux (Linux ODBC Informix driver).

Download

LuaSQL can be downloaded in source code from the following links:

luasql.tar.gz
luasql.zip

What's new

Version 2.0 has some design modifications and implementation improvements

New fetch method: more eficient and more flexible
New setautocommit method
Lua 5.0 compatible
Dynamically loadable or statically linked

History

LuaSQL was designed by Pedro Miller Rabinovitch and Roberto Ierusalimschy, sponsored by Fábrica Digital. The first implementation was compatible with Lua 4.0a. The current ODBC driver has been adapted from the original version by Diego Nehab, and the PostgreSQL driver has been adapted by Roberto Ierusalimschy and Carlos Cassino. Version 1.1 was made by Diego Nehab, Eduardo Quintão and Tomás Guisasola.

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Last modified by Tomás Guisasola on
Fri May 2 15:16:55 BRT 2003

Contents

Overview

Current version

Download

What's new

History