Re: Configuring Postgres to Add A New Source File

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Tareq Aljabban
<tareq.aljabban@gmail.com> wrote:
> Indeed, I'm a beginner in "Make", but I read few tutorials and was able to
> do what I wanted outside of PG using a simple make file.
> Now, when moving to PG, I found the Make structure much more complicated and
> didn't know where to add my configuration.
> I'm looking only for this file to run in PG (the required functionality is
> done already). My code will be a part of the backend, so I want to keep it
> there.

Uh, no it won't.  The compile command you showed had it creating a
standalone executable, hdfs_test.

You're likely to find that linking a JVM into the backend
significantly decreases the overall robustness of the system.  For
example, ^C isn't going to be able to abort out of processing a query
that's off doing something inside the JVM.

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