I've fixed a few bugs, made some improvements to the code and written some documentation (yes, really!) in two MySQL UDF projects that I've created and now it's time for 1.0!
mysql-posixmq provides the POSIX message queue IPC API for use in SQL queries. This is cool because it allows the user interface to communicate directly with a backend running on the MySQL server, via the MySQL connection. It is also cool because the IPC functions can be called from within triggers, stored procedures and stored functions. This allows a backend which wants to process data in the database to respond immediately when the data is coming in. Check out the README, or grab the 1.0 tarball.
mysql-sha256 is simply the SHA-256 hash function for use in MySQL. Stop using MD5 and SHA-1 already! There's a README, and the 1.0 tarball.
Please send me patches, praise, complaints and comments!
To read more about MySQL User Defined Functions, check out the manual:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/adding-udf.html
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/adding-udf.html
