Re: Any tutorial or FAQ on building an extension?

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Kevin
Grittner<Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:
> Matt Culbreth <mattculbreth(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> My new component intercepts this, and decides if it wants to do
>> something
>
>> If it does, it passes the request over to my new server (via
>> sockets), does its work, and pass back the results
>
> That's still too vague to allow people to give very specific advice.
> For example, I don't have a clue yet whether the query rewrite rules
> might satisfy your needs:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/sql-createrule.html

Yeah. I suspect you are going to better off using some combination of
views, triggers, set-returning functions, and SQL-level permissions to
do whatever it is that you are trying to do here rather than inventing
a whole middleware layer.

...Robert