On Thursday 18 October 2007 12:27:59 Billow Gao wrote: > Thanks. This is what I want to know :-) > > Regards, > > Billow > > >Yeah, what he wants is to implement a function in Postgres which does > >something like an LDAP or DNS lookup or something like that. > > > >Sure you can do this. The only tricky bit is the thing you mentioned about > >reusing the connection. You could always leave the connection in a safe > > state and don't need to worry about cleaning it up then you could just > > store it in a static variable which would be the simplest option. > > > >If you want to use Postgres's facilities for allocating memory and > > cleaning it up when no longer in use you can use some of the Postgres > > internal API for memory contexts and resource owners. But I don't see any > > particular reason you should need to worry about this stuff for something > > simple you're implementing yourself.
> On 10/18/07, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:24:24 -0400 > > "Billow Gao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can write the network program. > > ... Oh my. The worst kind of top-poster: the kind that copies *your* reply from the bottom to the top and top-posts above that. Shudder... :) jan -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Jan de Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu! -------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate