On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 05:30:48PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Ralf S. Engelschall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hence I propose the patch below (applies to PostgreSQL 8.1.4) > > which mimics the dlopen(3) and dlclose(3) behaviour of some Unix > > platforms and resolves and calls _PG_init and _PG_fini functions > > of an extension module right after/before the pg_dlopen/pg_dlclose > > calls in the FMGR. > > This seems like a reasonably good idea, and we have got uses for at > least the "init" case in most or all of our PLs. It's nominally too > late for 8.2 feature freeze, but I said just a couple days ago that > we shouldn't take a very hard line on that. Does anyone object to > considering this for 8.2?
Nope :) > One question I have is whether it really works as expected in all > cases. In particular what if the library is "preloaded" into the > postmaster? Both plpgsql and plperl seem to think they might need > to make a distinction between things to do at library load time and > things to do per-backend ... and yet, neither of them *actually* > have anything they need to do per-backend. I'm not sure quite what you mean here, but PL/PerlU functions can use() modules, and those are called per-backend, i.e. when the function is invoked. There's also some possibility that something might go into %_SHARED. Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
