Re: Fwd: lots of errors from fmgr.h when I try to write a C UDF

[Anh Pham <atpham.wpi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I actually included 'postgres.h'

However I found out that when I stopped the server, the code then compiled successfully.
It's weird

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

2014-02-01 Anh Pham <atpham.wpi@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi,
> I had Postgres 9.3 setup and run successfully in Eclipse (MacOSX)
> I am trying to write a C user-defined function:
>
> #include <fmgr.h>
> ...
> #ifdef PG_MODULE_MAGIC
> PG_MODULE_MAGIC;
> #endif
> ...
>
> However, when I tried to compile the code:
> gcc -fpic -c ...
> It gave me a lot of errors and warnings from fmgr.h:
>
> ...
> /Users/atpham/workspacecdt/pgsql/src/include/fmgr.h:59:2: error: unknown
> type name 'MemoryContext'
>         MemoryContext fn_mcxt;          /* memory context to store fn_extra
> in */
>         ^
> /Users/atpham/workspacecdt/pgsql/src/include/fmgr.h:71:2: error: unknown
> type name 'Oid'
>         Oid                     fncollation;    /* collation for function to
> use */
>         ^
> /Users/atpham/workspacecdt/pgsql/src/include/fmgr.h:72:2: error: unknown
> type name 'bool'
>         bool            isnull;                 /* function must set true if
> result is NULL */

> …

You'll need to include the appropriate header files. Certainly "postgres.h".

Regards

Ian Barwick

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Anh T Pham

Computer Science

Worcester Polytechnic Institute