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<REFENTRY ID="SQL-LOAD">
<REFMETA>
<REFENTRYTITLE>
LOAD
</REFENTRYTITLE>
<REFMISCINFO>SQL - Language Statements</REFMISCINFO>
</REFMETA>
<REFNAMEDIV>
<REFNAME>
LOAD
</REFNAME>
<REFPURPOSE>
Dynamically loads an object file
</REFPURPOSE>
<REFSYNOPSISDIV>
<REFSYNOPSISDIVINFO>
<DATE>1998-09-01</DATE>
</REFSYNOPSISDIVINFO>
<SYNOPSIS>
<REPLACEABLE CLASS="PARAMETER">
</REPLACEABLE>
LOAD '<REPLACEABLE CLASS="PARAMETER">filename</REPLACEABLE>'
</SYNOPSIS>
<REFSECT2 ID="R2-SQL-LOAD-1">
<REFSECT2INFO>
<DATE>1998-09-01</DATE>
</REFSECT2INFO>
<TITLE>
Inputs
</TITLE>
<PARA>
</PARA>
<VARIABLELIST>
<VARLISTENTRY>
<TERM>
<REPLACEABLE CLASS="PARAMETER">filename</REPLACEABLE>
</TERM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>
Object file for dynamic loading.
</VARIABLELIST>
</REFSECT2>
<REFSECT2 ID="R2-SQL-LOAD-2">
<REFSECT2INFO>
<DATE>1998-04-15</DATE>
</REFSECT2INFO>
<TITLE>
Outputs
</TITLE>
<PARA>
</PARA>
<VARIABLELIST>
<VARLISTENTRY>
<TERM>
LOAD
</TERM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>
</VARIABLELIST>
</REFSECT2>
</REFSYNOPSISDIV>
<REFSECT1 ID="R1-SQL-LOAD-1">
<REFSECT1INFO>
<DATE>1998-04-15</DATE>
</REFSECT1INFO>
<TITLE>
Description
</TITLE>
<PARA>
Loads an object (or ".o") file into the
<productname>Postgres</productname> backend address space. Once a
file is loaded, all functions in that file can be accessed. This
function is used in support of ADT's.
<para>
If a file is not loaded using
<command>LOAD</command>,
the file will be loaded automatically the first time the
function is called by <productname>Postgres</productname>.
<command>LOAD</command>
can also be used to reload an object file if it has been edited and
recompiled. Only objects created from C language files are supported
at this time.
<REFSECT2 ID="R2-SQL-LOAD-3">
<REFSECT2INFO>
<DATE>1998-04-15</DATE>
</REFSECT2INFO>
<TITLE>
Notes
</TITLE>
<PARA>
Functions in loaded object files should not call functions in other
object files loaded through the
<command>LOAD</command>
command, meaning, for example, that all functions in file A should
call each other, functions in the standard or math libraries, or in
Postgres itself. They should not call functions defined in a different
loaded file B. This is because if B is reloaded, the Postgres loader is
not able to relocate the calls from the functions in A into
the new address space of B. If B is not reloaded, however, there will
not be a problem.
<para>
Object files must be compiled to contain position independent code.
For example,
on DECstations you must use
<application>/bin/cc</application>
with the "-G 0" option when compiling object files to be
loaded.
<para>
Note that if you are porting <productname>Postgres</productname>
to a new platform, <command>LOAD</command>
will have to work in order to support ADTs.
</REFSECT2>
<REFSECT1 ID="R1-SQL-LOAD-2">
<TITLE>
Usage
</TITLE>
<PARA>
<ProgramListing>
--Load the file /usr/postgres/demo/circle.o
--
LOAD "/usr/postgres/demo/circle.o"
</ProgramListing>
</REFSECT1>
<REFSECT1 ID="R1-SQL-LOAD-3">
<TITLE>
Compatibility
</TITLE>
<PARA>
</PARA>
<REFSECT2 ID="R2-SQL-LOAD-4">
<REFSECT2INFO>
<DATE>1998-04-15</DATE>
</REFSECT2INFO>
<TITLE>
SQL92
</TITLE>
<PARA>
There is no LOAD statement in <acronym>SQL92</acronym>.
</REFENTRY>
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