Re: [rfc] new CREATE FUNCTION (and more)

From: Philip Warner <pjw(at)rhyme(dot)com(dot)au>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [rfc] new CREATE FUNCTION (and more)
Date: 2000-11-17 01:52:45
Message-ID: 3.0.5.32.20001117125245.00ce2360@mail.rhyme.com.au
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At 12:59 16/11/00 -0800, Nathan Myers wrote:
>
> - Keep the name 'C' for both old-style and new-style module declarations.
> - Require that new-style modules define a distinguished symbol, such as
> "int __postgresql_call_7_1;".
>
>The module loader can look for symbols that start with "__postgresql_call"
>and adjust automatically, or report an error. This

Cute idea. *If* people like the idea of an info function of some kind then
all we have to do is agree on it's name (not even the parameters, I think),
then we can get the 7.1 function manager to look for it. This is definitely
the simplest implementation of a brain-dead info function!

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