Mike Charnoky wrote:
> OK, forgive my ignorance here, but the maintainer of our custom data
> type code is no longer with us and this is new territory for me.  We do
> have a function which takes our custom data type and returns a cstring.
>  Is there a pg function which converts a cstring to text type?  This
> seems to be the missing link to eventually get the data to float4[].

Sure, textin() does that.

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