Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Geoffrey wrote:
>>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pcm_getmiles_s(text,text,integer)
>>> RETURNS float8 AS '/esc/pgrnd/prog/libpcmiler'
>>> LANGUAGE 'c' WITH (isStrict);
>
>> Is this function actually a PostgreSQL callable function? Or is it just
>> a general C function along the line of
>> float pcm_getmiles_s(char*, char*, int)
>> ?
>
> The code would never have worked at all if that were the case (since
> text* is not like char*). I suspect some subtler portability issue in
> Geoffrey's glue functions. It seems unlikely that moving from PG 7.4.13
> to 7.4.16 would in itself have exposed such a problem, but the update in
> operating environment from RHEL3 to RHEL4 might've.
That's what I get for not reading the whole threa dback, I missed the
fact that it had ever worked. Oops :-)
//Magnus
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