From: | Tony Griffiths <tony(dot)griffiths(at)cs(dot)man(dot)ac(dot)uk> |
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To: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Tony Griffiths(RA)" <griffitt(at)cs(dot)man(dot)ac(dot)uk>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: ADTs and embedded sql |
Date: | 2002-06-24 07:40:23 |
Message-ID: | 3D16CCE7.4E8113DB@cs.man.ac.uk |
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Thomas Lockhart wrote:
>
> > Ah, I see --- more or less make all of utils/adt/ available to be
> > linked into clients.
> > > That is a Good Idea in principle. In practice, ...
> > Yeah, it'd be a huge amount of work. For starters, all that code
> > relies on the backend environment for error handling and memory
> > management...
>
> It would be a large amount of work to make *all* of utils/adt available.
> However, the initial work would be to support I/O to get values
> converted to internal storage. Michael M. already has to do some of this
> for ecpg, and presumably we could do this for more types (or maybe *all*
> builtin types are already supported in this way by ecpg, in which case
> MM has already done all of the hard work, and we might just repackage
> it).
>
> A first cut would seem to be appropriate, if someone would like to pick
> up the work. Tony?? ;)
I'd love to get involved in this, BUT... no time at the moment, although
if I get a really good Masters student next semester - I could always
do this as their project. If this is still a requirement in about 3
months then I can set someone on to it.
Tony
>
> - Thomas
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