Re: [HACKERS] using C++ to define new functions

Michal Mosiewicz <mimo@interdata.com.pl>

From: Michal Mosiewicz <mimo@interdata.com.pl>
To: David Gross <David.Gross@lri.fr>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1998-07-19T23:46:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
David Gross wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
>         Sorry to disturb the hacker list for a question that seems not so hard.
> But I got no answers elsewhere...
>     Is is definitively impossible to use C++ to define new SQL functions or operators
> in SQL ? (I need this in order to use a big geometric library, to produce e.g. polygon
> intersections, or harder).
>[...]
>  but the linking style of c++ is rather different.
> Do you have an idea ?

How about using extern "C" {...} ?

Mike

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