Re: Missing library files??

Gavin Sherry wrote:

>On Wed, 19 Jun 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>"Tony Griffiths(RA)" <griffitt(at)cs(dot)man(dot)ac(dot)uk> writes:
>>
>>>I'm trying to invoke the DirectFunctionCall1function as follows:
>>>...
>>>from some client side code, but get linker errors stating that:
>>>
>>>-> undefined reference to `DirectFunctionCall1(unsigned long
>>>(*)(FunctionCallInfoData*), unsigned long)'
>>>
>>>Is this because I'm calling the function incorrectly, or because I'm
>>>missing the library in which these functions reside?
>>>
>>There *is* no "library in which those functions reside". They are
>>internal to the server and are not designed to be included in
>>client-side code.
>>
>
>You can access this function using the Fast Path Interface. See the libpq
>documentation. However, I am unsure why you would want to get access to
>this function on the client side.
>

I'm retrieving a box value via embedded sql, and wanted to use the
box_in method to decode the retrieved string - unless there's a direct
way of retrieving into a variable of the C type BOX??

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>Gavin
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