On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, mlw wrote:
>
> You could eliminate having to pass the result pointer around by keeping a
> static array in your extension. Use something like Oracle's "contains" notation
> of result number. Where each instantiation of "contains()" and "score()"
> require an id. i.e. 1,2,3,40 etc. Then hash those numbers into an array. I have
> some code that does this for a PostgreSQL extension (it implements contains) on
> my website (pgcontains, under download). It is ugly but works for the most
> part.
contrib/intarray does this job very well
>
> Seriously, your stuff looks great. I think it could be the beginning of a
> fairly usable system for my company. Any help you need/want, just let me know.
>
>
> Joe Conway wrote:
> >
> > mlw wrote:
> >
> > > I too find the internals of PostgreSQL virtually incomprehensible at the
> > > internal level. If there were a document somewhere which published how a
> > > function could return multiple tuples, remote views would be a trivial
> > > undertaking. It could look like:
> > >
> > > select * from remote('select *from table', 'user=postgres host=outland
> > > db=remote');
> > >
> >
> > See contrib/dblink in the 7.2 beta. It was my attempt inspired by
> > Oracle's dblink and some code that you (mlw) posted a while back. Based
> > on the limitations wrt returning muliple tuples, I wound up with
> > something like:
> >
> > lt_lcat=# select dblink_tok(t1.dblink_p,0) as f1 from (select
> > dblink('hostaddr=127.0.0.1 dbname=template1 user=postgres
> > password=postgres','select proname from pg_proc') as dblink_p) as t1;
> >
> > Which, as has been pointed out more than once, is pretty ugly, but at
> > least it's a start ;-)
> >
> > Joe
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