Oh, so does it actually involve any server modifications? Or can it just
go into pgfoundry?
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:25:03AM -0600, Peter Brant wrote:
> The code in question is written as C extension functions. I think we
> were thinking it might be something for contrib (although perhaps that
> would be too much of an official blessing too?)
>
> Pete
>
> >>> "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> 02/24/06 8:04 am >>>
> Isn't this something that could be accomplished entirely within a
> function? I suppose it might have to be an untrusted language, but
> that
> still seems cleaner than putting it in the backend. Plus, ISTM that
> something like perl is more likely to have a cross-platform means of
> accomplishing this.
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