Re: [rfc] new CREATE FUNCTION (and more) - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Philip Warner
Subject Re: [rfc] new CREATE FUNCTION (and more)
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Msg-id 3.0.5.32.20001117125245.00ce2360@mail.rhyme.com.au
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In response to Re: [rfc] new CREATE FUNCTION (and more)  (Nathan Myers <ncm@zembu.com>)
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At 12:59 16/11/00 -0800, Nathan Myers wrote:
>
> - Keep the name 'C' for both old-style and new-style module declarations.
> - Require that new-style modules define a distinguished symbol, such as 
>   "int __postgresql_call_7_1;".
>
>The module loader can look for symbols that start with "__postgresql_call"
>and adjust automatically, or report an error.  This 

Cute idea. *If* people like the idea of an info function of some kind then
all we have to do is agree on it's name (not even the parameters, I think),
then we can get the 7.1 function manager to look for it. This is definitely
the simplest implementation of a brain-dead info function!


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