Re: C function woes

Tom Lane writes:

> text *
> hello()
> {
> char data[] = "hello world";
> int32 new_text_size = VARHDRSZ + sizeof(data);
> text *new_text = (text *) palloc(new_text_size);
>
> VARSIZE(new_text) = new_text_size;
> memcpy(VARDATA(new_text), data, sizeof(data));
> return new_text;
> }

Is it good practice to scribble around in data type internals? Why not

text *
hello()
{
return textin("hello world");
}

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