Re: How do I use the backend APIs

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 11:34 +0800, Qingqing Zhou wrote:
> AFAIK there is no such API for this purpose. The reason is that to access
> BTree, you have to setup complex enough environment to enable so. For
> example, the buffer pool support, the WAL support etc. So though exporting
> such API is easy to do, there is no pratical usage of it.

Well, if the API is going to be invoked by C UDFs, it could assume that
the environment has been appropriately initialized.

I think it would be possible to provide such an API (although it would
take a considerable amount of work). However, I don't see the point --
why would an application want to use the API? SQL is much more flexible.

-Neil