Oh, I see, does the VARSIZE length field have to be the total number of bytes
occupied (including VARHDRSZ and the size of the structure) or only the size
that is used by "my" datatype? Then it would become pretty much obvious, why
this is not supposed to work.
I'll try it out then.
regards
Carsten Kropf
Am 10.02.2010 um 12:04 schrieb Yeb Havinga:
> Carsten Kropf wrote:
>> Actually, I thought, I did this using the int32 variable called "dimension"
>> which should be exactly this field.
> yes.
>> in = (PointND *) palloc(sizeof(float8) * dimensions + VARHDRSZ);
>> SET_VARSIZE(in, dimensions);
> What about
>
> len = sizeof(float8) * dimensions + VARHDRSZ;
> in = (PointND *) palloc0(len);
> SET_VARSIZE(in, len);
>
>
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