Hi Nathan, Thanks for the reply. I did indeed read that document and it's a great place to get started. But it doesn't quite answer my questions. Do you personally have experience writing software in C++ that interacts with Postgres?
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022, 23:07 Nathan Bossart <nathandboss...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 04:02:39PM +0200, Shmuel Kamensky wrote: > > I'm interested in creating a Postgres extension that would enable > > developers to write triggers in (modern) C++. Does anyone know if there > is > > already some sort of translation wrapper between the native Postgres C > > API's and C++? Or if there's already a project that allows for writing > > triggers in C++ with ease? > > I see that > https://github.com/clkao/plv8js-clkao/blob/master/plv8_type.cc > > does implement an abstraction of sorts, but it's specific to v8 types and > > is not genericized as a way of interacting with Postgres C API's from C++ > > from *an*y C++ code. > > > > Can you imagine any potential technical challenges I may encounter (e.g. > > massaging postgres' custom allocator to work with C++'s new and delete > > operators, or unresolvable compiler incompatibilities)? > > This might answer your questions: > > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/xfunc-c.html#EXTEND-CPP > > -- > Nathan Bossart > Amazon Web Services: https://aws.amazon.com >
