On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 04:40:38PM +0100, Michael Akinde wrote:
> As I understand it, I should be able to do something like (assuming
> "time" is the attribute name):
>
> bool isNull;
> HeapTupleHeader t = DatumGetHeapTupleHeader(row);
> Datum var = GetAttributeByName( row, "time", & isNull );
> // Check for null
> char * ret = DatumGetCString( DirectFunctionCall1(textout, var ) );
That's not going to work. textout wants a text datum. Try calling
timestamp_out instead...
Have a nice day,
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