Re: [PATCHES] libpq type system 0.9a

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Chernow wrote:
>
>> Forgot to say: There is stuff in PGconn, PGresult, PQclear, PQfinish
>> (maybe a couple other places).
>
> Maybe there's a way we can have libpqtypes adding calls into some
> hypothetical libpq hooks. So libpqtypes registers its hooks in _init()
> or some such, and it gets picked up automatically by any app that links
> to it.
>

Kinda what my last suggestion was. Some tid-bits need to be reside in libpq,
but very little. I was thinking PQtypesEnable(bool) which would dlopen
libpqtypes and map all functions needed. This would leave the function bodies
of PQputf, PQgetf, PQparamExec, etc... as simple proxy functions to the
dynamically loaded functions. This removes any bloat that people don't like
right now but still allows one to use libpq as the primary interface, rather
than having to fiddle with libpq and some other API.

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