Re: Registring a C function in PostgreSQL

Many thanks for your answers. The thing that in the Bruce´s book doesnt
explain how to compile this kind of functions, anyway I found how to compile
it.

Now, I am still having problems. I want to create a function to send an
email. I pass to the function two arguments: the email to send, and the text
to send.

First, I tried with pointers to char. It worked when I just create a
function called "sendemail()" with no arguments and set inside the text and
the email arguments.

When I read some more documentation about how to use strings in PostgreSQL,
I discovered that I have to use the text type in my C program I just try it
but
although it worked before, now I doesnt work.

This is what I have tried:

#include <stdio.h>
#include "postgres.h"

int sendemail(text *email,text *message)
{

char string_tosend [300];

sprintf(string_tosend,"echo \"%s\" >/tmp/mailtmp.txt
\n",VARDATA(message));

system(string_tosend);

sprintf(string_tosend,"mail -s \"message from PostgreSQL\" %s
</tmp/mailtmp.txt \n",VARDATA(message));

system(string_tosend);

system("rm /tmp/mailtmp.txt");

return 0;

}

and then in the back-end of PostgreSQL and I declared

CREATE FUNCTION sendemail(text,text)
RETURNS int4
AS '/home/postgres/libpginvuimail.so'
LANGUAGE 'c';

and then SELECT sendemail('postgres','test from backend');

and it didnt work. What am I doing wrong?

I have being testing and I guess is something to do with the text data type
and how to use it within a C program.

Many thanks in advance

Miguel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Haller Christoph" <ch(at)rodos(dot)fzk(dot)de>
To: "Miguel González" <iafmgc(at)unileon(dot)es>
Cc: <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: [SQL] Registring a C function in PostgreSQL

> Did you use the compiler option for generating
> position independent code (PIC) for use in building
> shared libraries.
> Did you use the linker option for creating
> a shared library - I think you did, the file
> suffix .so looks that way.
> I did it several times successfully using commands
> like
> CREATE FUNCTION byteatostr(bytea) RETURNS text
> AS './byteatostr.sl' LANGUAGE 'c';
> and it worked.
> Maybe you should add some more information about
> what you did in detail.
> Regards, Christoph
>