Re: [HACKERS] Access to current database from C-language function

2011-08-02 Thread Achim Domma
Am 01.08.2011 um 21:37 schrieb Merlin Moncure: > I think David is probably right and this can be handled in pure sql > simply and easily (perhaps in a function, perhaps not). The SPI > interface is great, but the sql and plpgsql languages are very > powerful and should always be preferred over a

Re: [HACKERS] Access to current database from C-language function

2011-08-01 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Robert Haas wrote: > On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:04 AM, David Fetter wrote: >> SQL is Turing-complete, so the chances are excellent that it's >> possible to express that algorithm in it. ;) >> >> Look into common table expressions for iteration/recursion, and >> win

Re: [HACKERS] Access to current database from C-language function

2011-08-01 Thread Robert Haas
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 11:04 AM, David Fetter wrote: > SQL is Turing-complete, so the chances are excellent that it's > possible to express that algorithm in it. ;) > > Look into common table expressions for iteration/recursion, and > windowing functions, commonly used for time series. > > http://

Re: [HACKERS] Access to current database from C-language function

2011-08-01 Thread David Fetter
On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 01:23:26PM +0200, Achim Domma wrote: > Am 26.07.2011 um 00:40 schrieb Florian Pflug: > > > On Jul25, 2011, at 22:31 , Achim Domma wrote: > >> Am 25.07.2011 um 14:48 schrieb Florian Pflug: > >>> A more low-level API is provided by > >>> {heap,index}_{beginscan,endscan}, heap

Re: [HACKERS] Access to current database from C-language function

2011-08-01 Thread Florian Pflug
On Aug1, 2011, at 13:23 , Achim Domma wrote: > I have tables which store two integer IDs and a floating point rank. So the > table MyTable might have these columns: > > EntityID -> int > PropertyID -> int > Rank -> float > > My algorithm needs to retrieve EntityID-Rank-Pairs for some given > Pr

Re: [HACKERS] Access to current database from C-language function

2011-08-01 Thread Achim Domma
Am 26.07.2011 um 00:40 schrieb Florian Pflug: > On Jul25, 2011, at 22:31 , Achim Domma wrote: >> Am 25.07.2011 um 14:48 schrieb Florian Pflug: >>> A more low-level API is provided by {heap,index}_{beginscan,endscan}, >>> heap_{insert,update,delete} and index_insert. However, correct handling of

Re: [HACKERS] Access to current database from C-language function

2011-07-25 Thread Florian Pflug
On Jul25, 2011, at 22:31 , Achim Domma wrote: > Am 25.07.2011 um 14:48 schrieb Florian Pflug: >> A more low-level API is provided by {heap,index}_{beginscan,endscan}, >> heap_{insert,update,delete} and index_insert. However, correct handling of >> transactions using this API isn't easy - for exam

Re: [HACKERS] Access to current database from C-language function

2011-07-25 Thread Achim Domma
Am 25.07.2011 um 14:48 schrieb Florian Pflug: > A more low-level API is provided by {heap,index}_{beginscan,endscan}, > heap_{insert,update,delete} and index_insert. However, correct handling of > transactions using this API isn't easy - for example, to update a row you'd > first have to find t

Re: [HACKERS] Access to current database from C-language function

2011-07-25 Thread Florian Pflug
On Jul25, 2011, at 13:40 , Achim Domma wrote: > I have read http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/xfunc-c.html and my > idea is, to write a C function which returns a set of rows. To generate the > result set, I would like to access indexes directly using the information I > found at http://

[HACKERS] Access to current database from C-language function

2011-07-25 Thread Achim Domma
Hi, I have read http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/xfunc-c.html and my idea is, to write a C function which returns a set of rows. To generate the result set, I would like to access indexes directly using the information I found at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/indexam.html.