Re: CREATE MODULE (was: Coping with 'C' vs 'newC' function language names)

At 20:33 13/11/00 -0500, Mark Hollomon wrote:
>On Saturday 11 November 2000 20:30, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:
>>
>> > Might even be able to implement a 'CREATE MODULE' which loads an
>> > object, enquires about functions in the module, and creates function
>> > entries based on information returned from pg_fmgr_info...
>>
>> That could work ... something to think about for the future, anyway.
>
>I apporached the other way.  LOAD MODULE would call a well defined
>entry point which could then use SPI or some other facility to create 
>whatever.

The problem with this suggestion (in the current context) is it does not
make the function manager interface version independant. 


> I saw it as a way to distribute types and even whole applications.

I don't know the details, but why not write an installer of some kind (RPM,
etc)?


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