Hi, Just like in most SQL databases - external functions are useful if something is simpler to implement in C or other imperative language rather than XQuery. Main drawback are - external functions can only work will atomic values and a bug in external function may crash database.
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Eric <ericclaudejo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > What are the advantages and disadvantages of using external functions. > > Cheers, > Eric > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a > definitive record of customers, application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 > _______________________________________________ > Sedna-discussion mailing list > Sedna-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sedna-discussion > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Sedna-discussion mailing list Sedna-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sedna-discussion
