[Gambas-user] adding functions to gb.db.postgresql

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 29/03/2012 04:58, Ian Haywood a écrit :
> This is not so much a feature request as a question on how to get started.
>
> There are two functions of the underlying postgres C interface that I
> would like to expose to Gambas:
> PQnotifies() [which returns postgres notification events], and
> PQsocket () which returns
> the FD of the socket the library is using to communicate with the
> server, (my plan is to monitor it
> using the 'Open "."&  fd For Read Watch' trick introduced in #4134)
>
> I'm happy to do the C programming and submit a patch, what I'm unclear
> on is how to extend
> the Gambas bindings, it's clear from looking at the code that the
> database components are all "drivers" for a fixed common API,
> problem is this feature (notifications) is very specific to
> postgresql, I don't know if it's possible to add
> a couple of "extra" methods to gb.db.postgresql
>
> thanks
>
> Ia  Haywood
>

I suggest that you try to use libpq directly with EXTERN declarations, 
because this is really a specific postgresql feature.

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini