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From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumnus.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] using c++ for functions
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>     I would like to know if it is possible to use C++ code
> to define new functions in Postgres...
> It works very well for C functions, but with C++ (on unix/linux
> systems), postgres can't find the function in the symbol table.

I don't know for sure, but I would suspect that C++ name mangling (or
something related) might be getting in the way. Have you looked at the
shared library with "nm" to see what the symbols actually are?

                     - Tom