Remove a bunch of "extern Datum foo(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);" declarations that
are no longer needed now that PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(foo) provides that.
Some of these were evidently missed in commit e7128e8dbb, but others
were cargo-culted in in code added since then. Possibly that can be blamed
in part on the fact that we'd not fixed relevant documentation examples,
which I've now done.
The previous coding in hstore_plpython and ltree_plpython wiped out any
values set by the base makefiles. This at least had the effect of running
the tests in "regression" not "contrib_regression" as expected. These
being pretty new modules, there might be other bad effects we'd not
noticed yet.
These modules were all missing essential Windows scaffolding, including
resources files and descriptions, and links to the relevant library
import files. This latter item means that the modules can't be built
with pgxs on Windows, as we don't install the import files. If we ever
decide to install them this restriction could probably be removed.
Also, as with plperl we need to make sure that perl's CORE directory is
last on the include list, as on Windows it appears to contain some
headers with names that clash with names of some headers we include.
This provides a mechanism for specifying conversions between SQL data
types and procedural languages. As examples, there are transforms
for hstore and ltree for PL/Perl and PL/Python.
reviews by Pavel Stěhule and Andres Freund
Tom Lane
Bruce Momjian
Andrew Dunstan
Peter Eisentraut