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Subject: Re: POSTGRES-C-Lisp-Prolog
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Date: Thu, 07 May 92 17:08:02 PDT

you write:

> 'Is it possible to call a C function within postgres which calls another 
> Lisp or Prolog function.'
> The application  target is an Expert database system 

I don't really know for sure.  It isn't supported.

Assuming you could dynamically load a lisp object file (about which I'm also
uncertain) your c function would have to handle the function call protocol.


Jeff Meredith
mer@postgres.berkeley.edu