Re: ADTs and embedded sql - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ADTs and embedded sql
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Msg-id 19680.1024671000@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: ADTs and embedded sql  (Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org>)
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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> writes:
> That is one possibility, but I think the proposal is to expose the
> *support* for the data types to client-side apps.

Ah, I see --- more or less make all of utils/adt/ available to be
linked into clients.

> That is a Good Idea in principle. In practice, ...

Yeah, it'd be a huge amount of work.  For starters, all that code
relies on the backend environment for error handling and memory
management...
        regards, tom lane


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