Hi, Jaco,

On Jun 25, Jaco Kroon wrote:
> 
> OK. 
> https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/10.6/plugin/func_test/plugin.cc 
> as well, so available for me.
> 
> This means I can write a "function" that takes an *INET6* type (and a
> long long), and returns an *INET6* type, which would solve a LOT of
> the inefficiency in my current solution too (pointless conversions
> between text and binary).
> 
> Since we only use MariaDB on the server at this point in time that's
> acceptable.
> 
> Other than the func_test example code (and inspecting the base class
> declarations), is there some documentation I'm missing?

Unfortunately, no, I've created MDEV-34451 to get them documented.

> Might be worthwhile to at least mention plugins on 
> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/user-defined-functions/ as an alternative to 
> UDFs, possibly have similar reference documentation available for 
> plugins in the KB.  Rooted at 
> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/programming-customizing-mariadb/ perhaps?

Yes, good point. I've mentioned them, thanks.

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect, MariaDB Server
and [email protected]
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