[HACKERS] Implementing an operator in C?

[Mario Weilguni]

Sorry if I'm posting to the wrong list, if so, please could you point me to 
the correct list? Thanks!

I'm trying to work with Access and Postgres as backend, but I often get 
errors like "unable to find an operator '=' for numeric and float" and 
such. Now I've implemented an operator in PLPGSQL, but I'm not very 
satisfied with the results (performance-wise). I've tried it in C, but 
failed:

I've written a function like this one (I tried to copy the behaviour a 
compersion function in utils/adt/numeric.c):

Datum
numeric_float8_eq(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
        Numeric         num1 = PG_GETARG_NUMERIC(0);
        float8          num2 = PG_GETARG_FLOAT8(1);
        bool            result;

        if (NUMERIC_IS_NAN(num1) || isnan(num2))
                result = false;
        else
        {
          float8 num3 = numeric_float8(num1);
          if(num2 == num3)
            result = true;
          else
            result = false;
        }

        PG_FREE_IF_COPY(num1, 0);

        PG_RETURN_BOOL(result);
}

Unfortunatly, this fails. The backend dies with a SIGNAL11 when calling 
this functions. Are there any examples how to implement such operators (any 
example might help)?

Thanks!

Best regards,
        Mario Weilguni