Re: [HACKERS] using C++ to define new functions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michal Mosiewicz
Subject Re: [HACKERS] using C++ to define new functions
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Msg-id 35B28553.45AD9432@interdata.com.pl
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In response to using C++ to define new functions  (David Gross <David.Gross@lri.fr>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] using C++ to define new functions  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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David Gross wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>         Sorry to disturb the hacker list for a question that seems not so hard.
> But I got no answers elsewhere...
>     Is is definitively impossible to use C++ to define new SQL functions or operators
> in SQL ? (I need this in order to use a big geometric library, to produce e.g. polygon
> intersections, or harder).
>[...]
>  but the linking style of c++ is rather different.
> Do you have an idea ?

How about using extern "C" {...} ?

Mike

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