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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: btree_gist, gint4_union
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To: Itai Zukerman <zukerman@math-hat.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:59:46 -0500 (EST)
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I am confused by your question.  It seems it is declared as returning an
int.

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Itai Zukerman wrote:
> In contrib/btree_gist/ I see:
> 
>   CREATE FUNCTION gint4_union(bytea, internal)
>   RETURNS int4
>   AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME'
>   LANGUAGE 'C';
> 
> but gint4_union does this:
> 
>   INT4KEY *out = palloc(sizeof(INT4KEY));
>   [...]
>   PG_RETURN_POINTER(out);
> 
> Is the int4 return type declared above a bug?
> 
> -- 
> Itai Zukerman  <http://www.math-hat.com/~zukerman/>
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