A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Conway) wrote: > 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.
It would probably make more sense to create an API that runs the activities via a translation into SQL... -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="ntlug.org" in String.concat "@" [name;tld];; http://linuxdatabases.info/info/slony.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #46. "If an advisor says to me "My liege, he is but one man. What can one man possibly do?", I will reply "This." and kill the advisor." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
