Re: [HACKERS] Can a C function(server program) be a UDP or TCP server?

2007-10-18 Thread Jan de Visser
On Thursday 18 October 2007 12:27:59 Billow Gao wrote: > Thanks.  This is what I want to know :-) > > Regards, > > Billow > > >Yeah, what he wants is to implement a function in Postgres which does > >something like an LDAP or DNS lookup or something like that. > > > >Sure you can do this. The only

Re: [HACKERS] Can a C function(server program) be a UDP or TCP server?

2007-10-18 Thread Billow Gao
Thanks. This is what I want to know :-) Regards, Billow >Yeah, what he wants is to implement a function in Postgres which does >something like an LDAP or DNS lookup or something like that. >Sure you can do this. The only tricky bit is the thing you mentioned about >reusing the connection. You

Re: [HACKERS] Can a C function(server program) be a UDP or TCP server?

2007-10-18 Thread Gregory Stark
"D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:24:24 -0400 >> And use it in PostgreSQL like: >> >> = >> SELECT name, c_talktoremoteudp(emp, 1500) AS overpaid >> FROM emp >> WHERE name = 'Bill' OR name = 'Sam'; >> >> ===

Re: [HACKERS] Can a C function(server program) be a UDP or TCP server?

2007-10-18 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:24:24 -0400 "Billow Gao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can write the network program. > But I am not 100% sure whether I can add the c-language function ( > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/xfunc-c.html) > to PostgreSQL. The function will be dynamic loaded by P

Re: [HACKERS] Can a C function(server program) be a UDP or TCP server?

2007-10-18 Thread Billow Gao
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:55:19 -0400 "Billow Gao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to write a dynamic loaded C function as an UDP or TCP server? > > What we want to do it is: > Add a search function which send a UDP package to remote UDP server > and then listen to an UDP port, waiting for

Re: [HACKERS] Can a C function(server program) be a UDP or TCP server?

2007-10-18 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:55:19 -0400 "Billow Gao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to write a dynamic loaded C function as an UDP or TCP server? > > What we want to do it is: > Add a search function which send a UDP package to remote UDP server > and then listen to an UDP port, waiting fo

[HACKERS] Can a C function(server program) be a UDP or TCP server?

2007-10-18 Thread Billow Gao
Hi there, Is it possible to write a dynamic loaded C function as an UDP or TCP server? What we want to do it is: Add a search function which send a UDP package to remote UDP server and then listen to an UDP port, waiting for the result. Ideally, we don't close the UDP server after the search quer