Re: Changes to libpgtcl

Jan Wieck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like make some changes on the 7.1 (to be) libpgtcl.
>
> 1. Make the large object access null-byte safe, when
> libpgtcl is compiled against a 8.0 or higher version of
> Tcl.
>
> This would cause that a libpgtcl.so built on a system
> with Tcl 8.0 or higher will not any longer load into a
> pre 8.0 Tcl interpreter. Since Tcl's actual version is
> 8.3, I think it's long enough for backward compatibility.
>
> 2. Add a "pg_execute" command, that behaves almost like the
> "spi_exec" of PL/Tcl.
>
> Any objections?

O.K., the changes are committed. pg_lo_read and pg_lo_write
are now able to handle binary data (actually I'm hearing an
MP3 pumped by a Tcl script directly from the DB into xaudio
:-)

Jan

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