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diff --git a/doc/man/load.l b/doc/man/load.l deleted file mode 100644 index 67600f26640..00000000000 --- a/doc/man/load.l +++ /dev/null @@ -1,51 +0,0 @@ -.\" This is -*-nroff-*- -.\" XXX standard disclaimer belongs here.... -.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/man/Attic/load.l,v 1.1.1.1 1996/08/18 22:14:25 scrappy Exp $ -.TH LOAD SQL 01/23/93 Postgres95 Postgres95 -.SH NAME -load \(em dynamically load an object file -.SH SYNOPSIS -.nf -\fBload\fR "filename" -.fi -.SH DESCRIPTION -.BR Load -loads an object (or ".o") file into Postgres's address space. Once a -file is loaded, all functions in that file can be accessed. This -function is used in support of ADT's. -.PP -If a file is not loaded using the -.BR load -command, the file will be loaded automatically the first time the -function is called by Postgres. -.BR Load -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. -.SH EXAMPLE -.nf --- ---Load the file /usr/postgres/demo/circle.o --- -load "/usr/postgres/demo/circle.o" -.fi -.SH CAVEATS -Functions in loaded object files should not call functions in other -object files loaded through the -.BR load -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 \*(lqsmart\*(rq enough 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. -.PP -On DECstations, you must use -.IR /bin/cc -with the \*(lq-G 0\*(rq option when compiling object files to be -loaded. -.PP -Note that if you are porting Postgres to a new platform, the -.BR load -command will have to work in order to support ADTs. |