Re: [JDBC] Regarding GSoc Application

On 04/10/2012 09:48 AM, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:42 AM, Andrew Dunstan<andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> wrote:
>>> I am considering two paths for doing this:
>>> The first one takes the help of the SPI(Server Programming Interface)
>>> and the second one directly connects through Pl/Java and JNI(Java
>>> Native Interface).
>>>
>> I'd say forget SPI - I don't think it's going to help you here. Just
>> concentrate on getting the functionality via a PL/Java wrapper. I wouldn't
>> worry too much about jdbc style URLs either, since logically I think you'd
>> want to specify the connection parameters via server and FDW options as in
>> my example above - that way it would be consistent with other FDWs. But
>> that's a piece of bikeshedding for now. Basically, you want to implement the
>> handler function to start with.
> how do you cross from FDW into a pl/java routine without SPI?
>

Add the FDW handler as a sibling function of the function call handler.
At least that would be my first approach to writing a DBI::DBD FDW
wrapper for plperl, which I naturally know rather better than the
PL/Java code.

cheers

andrew