Re: [HACKERS] Server Side PL support

2004-03-01 Thread Thomas Hallgren
The Pl/Java (the JNI version) will utilize a class loader that uses tables in the SQLJ schema. Java has a fairly extensive mechanism for "module" loading so I think it's hard to collaborate on that. The Java standard came up with an idea that I think is pretty neat that other pl's might use. When

Re: [HACKERS] Server Side PL support

2004-02-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
Yes. I am looking at a few of these things (preloading, intra-perl calling, array and tuple return), and I understand that CommandPrompt is doing some plperl work too. They already have a plperl which does triggers. My question was not "what functionality do we need from PLs?" but rather "what

[HACKERS] Server Side PL support

2004-02-29 Thread Andrew Dunstan
I have been taking a brief look at pltcl, and particularly its ability to preload modules. By comparison with most of the core product this seems to be somewhat out of date and unpolished (e.g. hardcoded path to libpgtcl.so, no use of schemas for the supporting tables, lack of comments). Since