Re: Using C++ With SPI?

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 6:46 PM
To: Clay Luther
Cc: Doug McNaught; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Using C++ With SPI?

Clay Luther <claycle@cisco.com> writes:

I had been having good luck writing stored procs in C++ with
Postgres.

I'm really surprised you were able to do much of anything.
C++ defines
a bunch of keywords that are not keywords in plain C, and
unsurprisingly
some of those words are used as names in various Postgres
header files.

There's been some talk of renaming stuff to make at least the most
important headers C++-safe, but it's not very high on the priority
list; I think there was concern about breaking existing user-written
code.

I would think btw that you'd need extern "C" {...} around *all* the
Postgres headers you include, not just some of 'em.

regards, tom lane