Re: understanding Datum -> char * -> Datum conversions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 12:51:52PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > 
> > I'm reading these files but still got a problem:
> 
> 
>     float32  result = (float32) palloc(sizeof(float32data));
>      
>     *result = 10.5;
>     SPI_modifytuple(relation, tupdesc, &attnum, Float32GetDatum(result),
>                                 NULL);
>  Right?

Yes! It works now. My error was using a float32 instead of a float64, as
the internal type is really a float8. The confusion comes from defining
my tables with the type "float" which apparently defaults to float8.

Many thanks,

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