On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Steve Midgley wrote:
Hi Peter,
:)
All my Pg code is written via (or handed to) an abstraction layer, and I
actually write no functions or stored procedures at all. I write using Rails,
so in this case it's a Ruby library called ActiveRecord which has a Postgres
module that allows me to talk via "ActiveRecord-speak" or via direct Postgres
sql commands. (For example, AR has no idea how to create a GiST index, so I
issue that DDL statement manually using the special syntax - also AR is not
always so smart about SQL queries so tricky ones I write by hand).
Maybe I misunderstand Q3C completely but it looks like C code that has to be
installed into the Postgres server itself - not a series of SQL functions
that can implemented on an unmodified server. I think my ISP is fine with
anything that gets installed via user-level privileges. Anything that
requires root and/or anything that involves binary code they are more
cautious about.
Q3C as a contrib module doesn't require root priviliges, you could
compile it in your home directory ! The only issue is that you should have
pg superuser rights, but you can always ask somebody with such rights
to install compiled module to your database.
Regards,
Oleg
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