On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:39:41AM +0100, michi platzer wrote:
>
> i need to write my own very basic aggregate functions for MySQL and
> had a couple of questions regarding this:
>
> * does anybody know of a site with a collection of UDF's written by other
> MySQL user?
Nope, sorry.
> * i read an old posting (from 99) about somebody writing a little
> tool, which enabled him to write UDFs in Perl: does anybody know
> more about this (excuse my naive question, but i guess there is
> nothing like that available for Java, or?)
Again, no.
> * any known problems for using UDFs over the JDBC-interface?
UDFs are really independent of the clinet language, since they run on
the server side and just look like server-side functions.
> * is it true that there is no way for using UDFs on the Windows-platform?
Don't know. What does the manual say?
> * i could not find udf_example.cc neither in the Win-distribution,
> nor in the Linux-Intel-version. can anybody provide me with some
> basic example code, so that i see how aggregate functions should
> work?
sql/udf_example.cc in the source distribution.
> ps. i was already thinking about changing to a pure Java database,
> in order to write some functions on the DBserver-side in Java, since
> i am more familiar with this, but then i had to figure out there is
> nothing out there that is nearly as reliable, fast and inexpensive
> as MySQL!! keep up the good work, guys!
Yeah, if you were looking at Java databases, I assumed that speed
wasn't a concern for you. :-)
Jeremy
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