Re: Shared Objects (Dynamic loading)

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Jasbinder Bali" <jsbali(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Gerald Timothy G Quimpo" <gerald(dot)quimpo(at)qualservcentral(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Shared Objects (Dynamic loading)
Date: 2006-08-28 13:42:11
Message-ID: 26049.1156772531@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Jasbinder Bali" <jsbali(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Its because my trigger has to initiate some unix tools and the code for
> the same is already written in Perl.
> So my trigger just needs to call the Perl program that would do the needful
> eventually.

Seems like you should be writing the trigger in plperl then. Writing
triggers in C is a task with a *steep* learning curve that you've
evidently barely started to climb, and frankly I don't see where you're
expecting to get any return from it.

regards, tom lane

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