I wrote and compiled and linked a C function, add_float, which returns float in C like following:
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(add_float); Datum add_float(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) { float arg = PG_GETARG_FLOAT8(0); PG_RETURN_FLOAT8(arg + 10); } After having loaded it into database, executed the SQL command, "select ad_float(2.90)", but one error occured. The error message is "Error: invalid memory alloc request size 4294967290" . However I changed the above function as following: PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(add_integer); Datum add_integer(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS) { int32 arg = PG_GETARG_INT32(0); PG_RETURN_INT32(arg + 10); } and executed the SQL command, "select add_integer(5)", and the result is: add_integer ---------- 15 In another word, the function can NOT return float BUT return integer. Why? Please help me. Thank you very much. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org