David GROSS wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to know if it is possible to use C++ code
> to define new functions in Postgres, something like :
>
> create function ... returns ... as '...' language 'c++';
>
> It works very well for C functions, but with C++ (on unix/linux
> systems), postgres
> can't find the function in the symbol table.
>
David,
C++ does many things implicitely (behind your back)
and is therefore not suitable for embedded code
such as device drivers och loadable function.
Besides, I can see no reasons to choose C++ over C for
small things like this (except political, of course).
(Flames by private mail, please)
Hopefully we will be able to use PL/pgSQL or PL/Perl
for this in future releases of pgsql.
best regards,
Göran.
