Re: contrib Makefiles

Yes, you can optionally specify the symbol to find in the *.so file as
part of the CREATE FUNCTION command.

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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> > I guess my question would be that currently fulltextindex generates SQL like
> > this:
>
> > create function fti() returns opaque as
> > '$libdir/fti'
> > language 'C';
>
> > So it references the fti.so, but where does it say what function to actually
> > run in fti.so? Or is it assumed in C functions that the function to call in
> > the shared object is the same as the name of the function???
>
> That's the assumption unless you specify differently. Time to reread
> the CREATE FUNCTION man page ...
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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