calling C++ functions from PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From John Gunther
Subject calling C++ functions from PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 3E912965.3020101@bucksvsbytes.com
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Responses Re: calling C++ functions from PostgreSQL  (Antti Haapala <antti.haapala@iki.fi>)
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The PostgreSQL Programmer's Guide, Section 9.5, says "User-defined
functions can be written in C (or a language that can be made compatible
with C, such as C++)". Can someone point me to some examples or docs on
how to make C++ compatible with C? Despite searching, I'm unable to find
anything comprehensive that discusses calling C++ functions from C programs.

Specifically, our C language pg functions depend heavily on a second C
library (also used by other C applications) for functionality that isn't
specific to pg (such as complex string manipulation). I'd like to
migrate that generic C library to C++, but that requires calling the C++
routines, directly or through intermediate C functions, from pg.


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