[GENERAL] Need help on extracting composite array element in ‘C’

[LLC Chief Financial Officer]

I am having an issue with extracting data from the arguments within my ‘C’
function, inside my Stored Library.

Let’s put the pieces together first:

I have a type called rank_post which has two one character fields:

CREATE TYPE rank_post AS
(
  rank character(1),
  post character(1)
);

I am using the following select statement to call the stored library
function.
select
rotation(array[('5','A')::rank_post,('1','Z')::rank_post,('2','S')::rank_post,('3','D')::rank_post]);
So inside my stored library function I have

typedef struct {
  char rank;
  char post;
} TdbRank;


Datum rotation(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
  ArrayType *attr_arr              = PG_GETARG_ARRAYTYPE_P(0);
  Oid        attr_element_type     = ARR_ELEMTYPE(attr_arr);
  int        attr_ndims            = ARR_NDIM(attr_arr);
  int       *attr_dim_counts       = ARR_DIMS(attr_arr);
  int       *attr_dim_lower_bounds = ARR_LBOUND(attr_arr);
  int        ncols                 = attr_dim_counts[0];

  int16      attr_len;
  bool       attr_byval;
  char       attr_align;
  int        indx[MAXDIM];
  bool       isNull;

  TdbRank    item[ncols];
  Int        xItem;

  Datum      datumResult;

  get_typlenbyvalalign(attr_element_type, &attr_len, &attr_byval,
&attr_align);

  for(xItem = 0; xItem < ncols; xItem++) {
    indx[0] = xItem + attr_dim_lower_bounds[0];
    datumResult = array_ref(attr_arr, attr_ndims, indx, -1, attr_len,
attr_byval, attr_align, &isNull);

  ????? /* how do I extract the data */
    item[xItem].rank = ?;
    item[xItem].post = ?;
  }
  ...
}

After reading for an extended period of time, and trying what I thought was
right, I am still at a loss on how to extract the data out.  When I print
the the ndims and ncols I do get the right results of 1 and 4, and when I
print the hex address each datum each is 32 bytes.

I am not sure what more someone needs to help, but this is the most
information I have and can release.  So if you can help, it would be greatly
appreciated.