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To: Brendan Guenther <guenthe8@msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Re: Now for the VARDATA, VARSIZE, and VARHDRSZ stuff 
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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>> 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