"Andrew C.R. Martin" <a.c.r.martin@reading.ac.uk> writes:
> My own particular problem simply pulls out an integer and a (text *)
> from a varchar. It then goes away and does some calculations based on
> these values and another external file (in fact it does a system() to
> run an external program which does these calculations). It then build
> a 'text' structure containing the result.
Hm. I'm not too clear on why that would need to worry about either
TupleTableSlot or GetAttributeByName ... shouldn't it be a simple
function consuming a text Datum and producing another?
regards, tom lane
