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<!$Id: index.html,v 1.11 2003/10/24 10:58:18 tomas Exp $>
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<style type="text/css">
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ul { list-style-type: disc };
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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
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<center>
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<table border=0 cellspacing=2 cellpadding=2>
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<tr><td align=center><a href="http://www.lua.org">
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<img border=0 alt="The Lua language" src="lua.png"></a>
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<tr><td align=center><big><b>LuaSQL</b></big>
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<tr><td align=center valign=top>Database connectivity for the Lua language
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</table>
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<p>
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<center><small>
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<a href=#over>overview</a> ·
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<a href=#version>current version</a> ·
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<a href=#download>download</a> ·
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<a href=#new>what's new</a> ·
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<a href=#installation>installation</a> ·
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<a href="manual.html">manual</a> ·
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<a href=#hist>history</a>
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</small></center>
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<p>
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<hr>
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<h2>Contents</h2>
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<p>
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<ul>
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<li> <a href=#over>Overview</a>
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<li> <a href=#version>Current Version</a>
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<li> <a href=#download>Download</a>
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<li> <a href=#new>What's new</a>
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<li> <a href=#installation>Installation</a>
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<li> <a href="manual.html">User's manual</a>
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<ul>
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<li> <a href="manual.html#introduction">Introduction</a>
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<li> <a href="manual.html#environment_object">Environment objects</a>
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<li> <a href="manual.html#connection_object">Connection objects</a>
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<li> <a href="manual.html#cursor_object">Cursor objects</a>
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<li> <a href="manual.html#postgres_extensions">PostgreSQL extensions</a>
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<li> <a href="manual.html#mysql_extensions">MySQL extensions</a>
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<li> <a href="manual.html#oracle_extensions">Oracle extensions</a>
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<li> <a href="manual.html#examples">Examples</a>
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</ul>
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<li> <a href=#hist>History</a>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<a name=over>
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<h2>Overview</h2>
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<p>
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LuaSQL is a simple interface from Lua to a DBMS.
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It enables a Lua program to:
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<ul>
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<li> Connect to ODBC, Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases;
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<li> Execute arbitrary SQL statements;
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<li> Retrieve results in a row-by-row cursor fashion.
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</ul>
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<a name=version>
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<h2>Current version</h2>
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<p>
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LuaSQL version 2.0 alpha (for Lua 5.0) is now available for
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<a href="#download">download</a>!
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The PostgreSQL driver
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has been tested on Linux and MacOS X,
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the ODBC driver has been tested on Windows
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(SQLServer and Microsoft Access drivers),
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the MySQL driver has been tested on Linux
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and the Oracle driver on Windows.
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</p>
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<a name=download>
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<h2>Download</h2>
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LuaSQL can be downloaded in source code from the following links: <p>
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<blockquote>
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<a href="http://poison.les.inf.puc-rio.br/luasql/luasql-2.0a.tar.gz">luasql-2.0a.tar.gz</a><br>
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<a href="http://poison.les.inf.puc-rio.br/luasql/luasql-2.0a.zip">luasql-2.0a.zip</a>
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</blockquote><p>
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<a name=new>
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<h2>What's new</h2>
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<p>
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Version 2.0 has some design modifications and implementation improvements
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<ul>
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<li>New <tt>fetch</tt> method: more eficient and more flexible
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<li>New <tt>setautocommit</tt> method
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<li>Lua 5.0 compatible
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<li>Dynamically loadable or statically linked
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<li>New drivers for Oracle and MySQL databases
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</ul>
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</p>
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<a name="installation"></a>
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<h2>Installation</h2>
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<p>
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LuaSQL is distributed as a set of C source files and a Lua script that
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loads the dynamic library (if the library is not statically linked to
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the application).
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Each driver should be compiled within the luasql.c file (it's so small
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that we don't make another library of it) to generate a library.
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This library should be linked to the application (the initialization
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function is <tt>luasql_libopen_<i>drivername</i></tt> and it's a Lua
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open-library compatible function)
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or dynamically loaded.
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In this case, LuaSQL provide a Lua script template that must be
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edited to suit the installation: the text <tt>LIB_NAME</tt> (in the line
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<tt>local libname = "LIB_NAME"</tt>) should be substituted by the
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complete path of the dynamic library (or relative to the current directory,
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but that's not safe).
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The distribution contains a Makefile that has lines to do this job,
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using <tt>sed</tt>, according to each driver and platform.
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<a name=hist>
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<h2>History</h2>
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<h4>LuaSQL 2.0</h4>
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<p>
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Version 2.0 was redesigned by Roberto Ierusalimschy, André Carregal
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and Tomás Guisasola behind the Kepler Project.
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The implementation is compatible with Lua 5.0 and was coded by
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Tomás Guisasola and Eduardo Quintão.
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<h4>LuaSQL 1.0</h4>
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<p>
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LuaSQL was designed by Pedro Miller Rabinovitch and Roberto
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Ierusalimschy.
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The first implementation was compatible with Lua 4.0a.
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Many modifications were made but not distributed by Diego Nehab (ODBC),
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Carlos Cassino, Tomás Guisasola and Eduardo Quintão (PostgreSQL).
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<p>
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LuaSQL development was sponsored by
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<a href="http://www.fabricadigital.com.br">F<EFBFBD>brica Digital</a>.
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<p>
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<center><small>
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<a href=#over>overview</a> ·
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<a href=#version>current version</a> ·
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<a href=#download>download</a> ·
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<a href=#new>what's new</a> ·
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<a href=#installation>installation</a> ·
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<a href="manual.html">manual</a> ·
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<a href=#hist>history</a>
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</small></center>
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<p>
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<hr>
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<small>
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Last modified on
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Fri Sep 12 18:28:04 BRT 2003
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