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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: puetz@mpipsykl.mpg.de
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: How to detect NULL in VarChar (C function)
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:49:56 -0500
Message-ID: <12839.1105645796@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41E6A794.6020701@mpipsykl.mpg.de>
References: <41E6A794.6020701@mpipsykl.mpg.de>

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Benno_P=FCtz?= <puetz@mpipsykl.mpg.de> writes:
> I have not been able to find a description of how to detect NULL values 
> in VarChar variables passed to C-functions to catch those cases.

Use PG_ARGISNULL().  See
33.7.4. Calling Conventions Version 1 for C-Language Functions
at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/xfunc-c.html

			regards, tom lane



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