Re: [HACKERS] dynamic loading on NT works!

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On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Horak Daniel wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have played with dynamic loading of modules to the backend and it works.
> It needs only to add "DLLIMPORT" to all data structures, that should be
> exported.
>
> The main thing is done in the src/include/c.h - it defines DLLIMPORT to
> nothing on platforms other then Cygwin and __declspec(...) on Cygwin, and in
> src/makefiles/Makefile.win - it defines the symbol BUILDING_DLL only when
> the make process is in the src/backend subtree.
>
> I have tested it with trigger regression test - it works, and with some
> plpgsql stuff - it doesn't work and it probably needs some other data to be
> exported from the backend.
>
> I think the changes are minimal so they can by applied to the development
> source tree for 6.5.
>
> Dan
>
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> Daniel Horak
> network and system administrator
> e-mail: horak(at)mmp(dot)plzen-city(dot)cz
> privat e-mail: dan(dot)horak(at)email(dot)cz
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>
>

Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org secondary: scrappy(at){freebsd|postgresql}.org