Jeffery Collins wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone could help me with the following questions.
> They are all related to user defined types and functions.
>
> 1. Environment variables in function pathname. We would like to
> [...]
Create your SQL scripts that define the functions in a make
step, invoking sed(1) to substitute a constant string with
the content of an environment variable. This worked for the
past 20 years and I'm sure it's extremely portable.
> 2. tid assignment - We make extensive use of user defined types.
> One, fairly painful, thing we have noticed is the following sequence
> really doesn't work very well:
>
> [...]
>
> The reason for possibly wanting to do this is to fix a problem
> with the implementation of the type mytype.
You don't need to DROP and reCREATE the functions and type if
you just fixed some bug in the C coding. Recompile it,
replace the shared object and reconnect to the database. The
new backend (you get at reconnect) will load in the new
shared module and use the new code.
> 3. fid assignment - Basically the same question as above but with
> functions instead of types. If there is an index that uses a function,
> it appears that you can't drop and re-create the function without
> blowing away the index definition.
Same as 2.
Jan
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