modifying in the libpg files

["Islam Hegazy" <islheg(at)gmail(dot)com>]

 

Hi there

I am a grad student in CS University of Calgary. I work on  project to modify the behavior of the table functions to return on iterative base instead of materialization. So far I have succeeded in doing this it seems now that I am one step away from the end. I face a problem now with the front-end, how to display the rows as they are received. That is I want to call 'PrintQueryTuples' from within 'PQexecFinish' instead of 'SendQuery'. 'PQexecFinish' is defined in '../src/interfaces/libpq/fe-exec.c' and 'PrintQueryTuples' is defined in '../src/bin/psql/common.c'

 

I made the following steps:

1) redefined 'PrintQueryResults' in common.c to be extern (not static as the initial definition) to be able to use it elsewhere 2) added a declaration for ''PrintQueryResults' in common.h, to tell other files about it

3) removed 'PrintQueryResults' invocation from 'SendQuery' in common.c
4) added #include "../bin/psql/common.h" to fe-exec.c

5) called 'PrintQueryResults' from within 'PQexecFinish', last statement in the while loop

when I gmake the project I receive the following error:
"

../../src/interfaces/libpq/libpq.so: undefined reference to `PrintQueryResults'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
gmake[5]: *** [test1] Error 1
gmake[5]: Leaving directory `/home/grads/imehegaz/postgresql-8.2.3-b/src/interfaces/ecpg/test/connect'
gmake[4]: *** [all] Error 2
gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/home/grads/imehegaz/postgresql-8.2.3-b/src/interfaces/ecpg/test'
gmake[3]: *** [all] Error 2
gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/home/grads/imehegaz/postgresql-8.2.3-b/src/interfaces/ecpg'
gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/home/grads/imehegaz/postgresql-8.2.3-b/src/interfaces'
gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/grads/imehegaz/postgresql-8.2.3-b/src'
gmake: *** [all] Error 2

"

I wonder what does this error mean and how to solve it?

Notice: in the backend, I also invoked functions in different files and directories and I didn't face this problem.

Regards
Islam Hegazy