Re: loading libraries on Postmaster startup

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Joe Conway writes:
>
>>So I wrote a quick hack to load and initialize the library on postmaster
>>startup.
>
> On glibc systems you can probably do this using the environment variable
> LD_PRELOAD. I guess others have a similar mechanism.
>

Hmmm. I could try that. But I found during testing that the loading was
actually not the slow part, it was running the initialization function
for the interpreter that was. I wonder if there is there any way to get
an initialization function to automatically execute?

Joe