[HACKERS] Use of global and static variables in shared libraries

2007-09-14 Thread Don Walker
I'm in the process of converting some C functions written for another system into C functions in a shared library that will be used by PostgreSQL, The key function will be the state transition function for a user-defined aggregate. From what I've read in the documentation: 1. the state value shoul

Re: [HACKERS] Use of global and static variables in shared libraries

2007-09-14 Thread Don Walker
or global variables. If 200 users want to evaluate my aggregate at the same time how does the backend service them? I'm only asking this out of curiosity so I won't be too disappointed if you don't reply (because the answer is too long and complicated, etc.). Thanks for your reply,