RE: [GENERAL] postgresql v6.4.2 c funcs and null text pointers...

1999-01-08 Thread Jackson, DeJuan
Very observant of you. The postgres function system doesn't have a way to tell which parameter is null, so the function just returns null. I don't like it and we hope to get it changed for PGv6.5 (at least I do). Is it on the TODO guys? Jan, do you think you'll have the time to get to it by bet

[GENERAL] postgresql v6.4.2 c funcs and null text pointers...

1999-01-08 Thread Walt Bigelow
I wrote a c func (ATTACHED BELOW) which takes 2 pointers to type text, and a bool field. When a field in a row passed to the func is null, espically the 'first' field, Postgresql does not return the value that my code produced. For example: First lastco nocompany ---