[HACKERS] Table inheritance, unique constraints and foreign key problem

2007-11-26 Thread Jacob Rief
Hello, this issue has been requested and its on the TODO-list. Since I really need foreign key constraints on inherited tables, I have two solutions: Adding some hackish RULES/TRIGGERS to my tables or implementing it myself. It think the latter is better. However, I have no experience in

[HACKERS] Writing triggers in C++

2007-02-13 Thread Jacob Rief
I tried to write a trigger using C++. This requires to include the following header-files: extern C { #include postgres.h #include executor/spi.h #include commands/trigger.h #include fmgr.h } Unfortunately some of the included headers define some structs and functions where a few identifiers are

Re: [HACKERS] Writing triggers in C++

2007-02-18 Thread Jacob Rief
Tom Lane wrote: That is most likely not going to work anyway, because the backend operating environment is C not C++. If you dumb it down enough --- no exceptions, no RTTI, no use of C++ library --- then it might work, but at that point you're really coding in C anyway. Writing normal