From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Brendan Guenther <guenthe8@msu.edu>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Re: Now for the VARDATA, VARSIZE, and VARHDRSZ stuff
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:34:32 -0400
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<3AE01970.EC523C59@msu.edu>
>> The best things might be not to mess with this but call textin() and
>> textout() to convert your data to C strings.
textin() and textout() are notationally painful to call these days.
Personally I think it's just as easy to do your own manipulation of
text objects. There are examples at
http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.1/postgres/xfunc-c.html
--- see the copytext and concat_text() samples in particular.
regards, tom lane
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