External Procedures & ODT in Oracle8

I'm looking at Oracle8's ORDBMS capabilities and in particular the ability to use external C procedures/functions to implement methods for object data types. Currently, this is a paper excercise with my feasability study based on the CDROM manuals ... you got to start somewhere! My ODT is going to contain some VARRAYS which I need to manipulate in various member functions. Some of these functions are very complex numerically and algorithmically and I want to implement them in external functions. Looking at the PL/SQL references it doesn't seem as though I can pass arrays or indeed anything more complex than basic SQL types - but looking at the OCI reference there is a lot of stuff about manipulating array types etc.

Does anyone (a) if its possible to pass arrays or other collections to external functions; (b) if so does the external function binding convert it to a C types or do you have to use all the OCI stuff, or (c) am I way out of it..

Thanks

Peter Jones Received on Tue Jun 02 1998 - 12:01:34 CDT