Re: half OOT, plv8js group created ^^

2009/10/31 David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>:
> Please send a patch! :) :) :)

Here's my working directory. Kiswono, thanks for adding me to your
google code project. I prefer the license would be New BSD rather than
GPL.

From instant README:

plv8 version 2009/11/01

* OVERVIEW

plv8 is shared library that provides a PostgreSQL procedual language
powered by V8 JavaScript Engine. With this program you can write in
JavaScript your function that is callable from SQL.

* REQUIREMENT
plv8 requires:
PG: version 8.4.x (maybe older are allowed)
V8: version 1.2
g++ and all tools that PG and V8 requires to be built.

* INSTALL

** Get PostgreSQL and V8 source
PG: http://www.postgresql.org/ftp/source/
v8: http://code.google.com/p/v8/wiki/Source

Build both of them. Note v8 build option requires mode=release and
library=shared. Edit Makefile in plv8 directory so that $(PGDIR) and
$(V8DIR) point their directories and type "make". If your prompt
doesn't say anything and you can find plv8.so, that's all.

* TEST

Copy plv8.so into $(PGHOME)/lib and libv8.so from v8 directory into
some path that PostgreSQL can read as a library such like /usr/lib/.
Then type below SQL in your psql;
CREATE FUNCTION plv8_call_handler() RETURNS language_handler AS
'$libdir/plv8' LANGUAGE C;
CREATE FUNCTION plv8_call_validator(Oid) RETURNS void AS
'$libdir/plv8' LANGUAGE C;
CREATE LANGUAGE plv8 HANDLER plv8_call_handler VALIDATOR plv8_call_validator;

-- create js function
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION plv8_test(keys text[], vals text[]) RETURNS
text AS $$
var o = {};
for(var i=0; i<keys.length; i++){
o[keys[i]] = vals[i];
}
return JSON.stringify(o);
$$ LANGUAGE plv8 IMMUTABLE STRICT;

-- test
SELECT plv8_test(ARRAY['name', 'age'], ARRAY['Tom', '29']);

* CAVEATS
- This is WIP version.
- Tested on only CentOS 5 (x86), PostgreSQL 8.4 (8.5devel) and v8 1.2.
- There's no interface to call SPI.
- You must specify argument names in function declarations.
- 1-dim array can be put as arguments. Multi dimension array is not supported.
- And many, many bugs...

Any question and comment appreciated.

Regards,

--
Hitoshi Harada