Re: [HACKERS] where to write small reusable functions ?

2007-04-17 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 03:02:28PM +0200, Dany DeBontridder wrote: > On 4/13/07, Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Dany DeBontridder wrote: > >> I'm working to implement a new feature to pg_dump: the ability to dump > >> objects like function, indexes... > > > >pg_dump already du

Re: [HACKERS] where to write small reusable functions ?

2007-04-13 Thread Dany DeBontridder
On 4/13/07, Heikki Linnakangas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dany DeBontridder wrote: > I'm working to implement a new feature to pg_dump: the ability to dump > objects like function, indexes... pg_dump already dumps functions and indexes. Right but you can't dump only one or two functions or

Re: [HACKERS] where to write small reusable functions ?

2007-04-13 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Freitag, 13. April 2007 14:28 schrieb Dany DeBontridder: > But, in that case, those functions are only usable for pg_dump, what about > the rest of code ? We don't have a central location for those small > reusable snippets of code ? The main point of these functions is to catch errors and exit

Re: [HACKERS] where to write small reusable functions ?

2007-04-13 Thread NikhilS
Hi, char * pg_strcat (char *dest,char *src) { /* pg_realloc is a safer function than realloc */ dest=pg_realloc(dest,strlen(dest)+strlen(src)+1); strcat(dest,src); return dest; } Postgres already has something for the above functionality. See makeStringInfo, appendStringInfo. Regards, Nik

Re: [HACKERS] where to write small reusable functions ?

2007-04-13 Thread Heikki Linnakangas
Dany DeBontridder wrote: I'm working to implement a new feature to pg_dump: the ability to dump objects like function, indexes... pg_dump already dumps functions and indexes. -- Heikki Linnakangas EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---(end of broadcast)---

[HACKERS] where to write small reusable functions ?

2007-04-13 Thread Dany DeBontridder
Hi, I'm working to implement a new feature to pg_dump: the ability to dump objects like function, indexes... And I notice that there some usefull functions like pg_malloc, pg_calloc... So I've added pg_free to avoid the sequence if-not-null-free-point-to-NULL, now I'd like to add a function pg_st