Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Hi all,
> someone of you sent me an example of a new data type
> called tinyint.
Hi.
>
> I seen that is using a well directory structure just
> for compile a tinyint.c.
Yes. The idea was to have it do more than just this one type. Maybe a
bad idea, on retrospect.
>
> Is there any "empty" structure that I have to use in
> order to delivery compile my email.c or I can
> just use a single line command:
>
> gcc email.c -I. -I /usr/include/pgsql/server ....
Yes.
>
> I seen also that a library called libpgext.so
> is created.
You need to create SOME library, and you need it to be of a unique name.
Did I mention that the tinyint type was suboptimal in that respect?
> Shall I do the same ? Are guide line to use out there?
There are in the docs. Start reading from
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/extend.html
> Regards
> Gaetano Mendola
I sent you these sources as a base to build from. You are most welcome
to start anew if you don't like the structure.
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Shachar Shemesh
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