Re: Using C++ With SPI?

Thanks Tom. That is good info.

(gnashing of teeth in background)

Clay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 6:46 PM
> To: Clay Luther
> Cc: Doug McNaught; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Using C++ With SPI?
>
>
> Clay Luther <claycle(at)cisco(dot)com> writes:
> >> I had been having good luck writing stored procs in C++ with
> >> Postgres.
>
> I'm really surprised you were able to do much of anything.
> C++ defines
> a bunch of keywords that are not keywords in plain C, and
> unsurprisingly
> some of those words are used as names in various Postgres
> header files.
>
> There's been some talk of renaming stuff to make at least the most
> important headers C++-safe, but it's not very high on the priority
> list; I think there was concern about breaking existing user-written
> code.
>
> I would think btw that you'd need extern "C" {...} around *all* the
> Postgres headers you include, not just some of 'em.
>
> regards, tom lane
>