Re: Silly Newbie question

Aaron Spiteri wrote:
> To all,
>
> I am brand new to writing functions for PostgreSQL and understand that
> this question has been asked one hundred and one times. Please be
> patient with me, I do learn quickly.
>
> My question is:
>
> I wish to create a an aggregate function and have read and re-read the
> 34.10 section of the 8.3 documentation as well as scanned through the
> fmgr header file. My problem is that I know certain structures are
> created with the idea of retaining information for use in the state
> function but I don't really understand which structures I should be
> looking at and how to initilize them (if needed) in the sfunc. Any
> pushes in the right direction would be very appreciated, I am using
> the Version 1 calling convention.
>
>
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This is not the correct forum for such questions. Please ask again on
pgsql-general. pgsql-hackers is about development of postgresql itself.

cheers

andrew