Re: Using libpq to access a repote database from a c trigger function breaks.

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: <afritz@teamdev.com>, <pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-03-07T19:37:07Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs
Tom Lane writes:

> pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org writes:
> > Using libpq to access a repote database from a c trigger function breaks.
>
> Try linking libpq.a into your .so file.  I think your references to
> PQexec and so forth are being resolved to the
> similarly-named-but-completely-different functions that exist in the
> backend (see src/backend/libpq).  There is no copy of client libpq in
> the standard backend.

You might also want to try to sneak in a -Bsymbolic option (or
-Wl,-Bsymbolic, respectively) on your link command line.  On ELF systems,
symbols in the executable override symbols in the shared library unless
you use this option.

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