Re: C Programming with postgres.h - my function crashes

Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:56:45PM +0000, Alex Page wrote:
>
>> Datum enum_gender_in(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) {
>> text *invalue = PG_GETARG_TEXT_P(0);
>>
>> if ( strcmp ( VARDATA(invalue), "Male" ) ) { /* VARDATA gets the data portion of a "varlena" struct, which is typedef'd to "text" */
>> PG_RETURN_INT32( 0 );
>> }
>> PG_RETURN_INT32( 1 );
>> }
>
> VARDATA is not 0-terminated, so you can't use strcmp on it. Maybe you
> should use memcmp instead.
>

First of all, the argument to a type input procedure is a nul terminated
CString, not text.

Alex, why don't you look at an existing datatype in backend/utils/adt?

Jan

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