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Responses Re: Example code bug: destination->data  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/xfunc-c.html
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38.10.2. Base Types in C-Language Functions

In the last example of the section, this line appears:

memcpy(destination->data, buffer, 40);

For me, this gave the following error:

error: ‘text’ {aka ‘struct varlena’} has no member named ‘data’

After tracking down the struct definition, I got the example working with:
destination->vl_dat instead.  I assume this is correct, and that the member
name changed somewhere along the way.

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Ray Brinzer

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