Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Thomas Hallgren <thomas(at)tada(dot)se>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, Satoshi Nagayasu <nagayasus(at)nttdata(dot)co(dot)jp>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze
Date: 2006-07-13 18:11:40
Message-ID: 44B68CDC.70805@dunslane.net
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mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc wrote:

>
>This is why I was thinking that the problem is that the backend (SPI?)
>API isn't exposed as native methods in the required languages. If just
>the SPI API was exposed from the core to the languages, the
>maintenance effort and size should be less, and the add-ons would not
>require that they be built with the PostgreSQL core, making it easy to
>integrate them after the fact.
>
>
>

The glue code needs much more than SPI. There is a lot of housekeeping
involved.

cheers

andrew

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