Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:49:46 -0300 > Alvaro Herrera <alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > > > > There are a lot of functions in contrib taking cstring input and > > > returning cstring output. > > > Are they just in the same "special" class of [type]in, [type]out > > > [type]recv... functions? > > > Probably, but I didn't check. > > Does this nearly translate to: > "nothing you should care about right now and anyway just functions > that won't return results to SQL"?
I meant "they are almost certainly in the same class as typein and typeout, but I didn't check every single one of them". As far as I can tell you are not writing an output function, but rather a debugging function of sorts. I see no reason to return cstring. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
