Writing Postgresql extension in D

Bienlein jeti789 at web.de
Fri Nov 16 09:43:59 UTC 2018


On Friday, 16 November 2018 at 02:18:11 UTC, Ranjan wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 November 2018 at 17:03:55 UTC, Andrea Fontana 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 15 November 2018 at 13:05:59 UTC, Ranjan wrote:
>>> This is my first time on the Dlang forum. I like the language 
>>> but my usecase is a bit different.
>>>
>>> I want to write Postgresql extension in D. Currently 
>>> extension can be written in C or C linked languages. Has 
>>> anyone done this or can point me to some code.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> Did you read this: https://dlang.org/spec/interfaceToC.html ?
>>
>> Andrea
>
> Yes, but it's not useful, in Postgesql extension C code needs 
> to call D, without GarbageCollection. I am able to do this in 
> RustLang but I am not sure how to in D, as it has a GC. Looking 
> for examples from the community.
>
> Thanks

I'm not an exert with C nor D. So I might misuderstand the 
issue... You can write a skeleton plugin for postgres in C that 
at init time starts the D runtime. From then on your C skelton 
plugin can call some function in D.


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