Re: User-defined-type in C crashing PostgreSQL server: What am I doing wrong? - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 01:07:15PM -0800, J. Greg Davidson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My user-defined types are crashing the PostgreSQL server and I don't
> understand why.  I've been trying to figure it out on my own for overr
> a week.  I've cooked what I'm doing down to the essentials and I'm
> asking for help.  Help: What am I doing wrong?

This may be a long shot but:

> CREATE TYPE pair (
>   INTERNALLENGTH = 4,        -- 32-bits
>   INPUT = pair_in,
>   OUTPUT = pair_out
> );

You're not specifying PASSEDBYVALUE, so I think postgres is assuming
you're returning a *pointer* to 4 bytes, so it's dying trying to copy
it.

Hope this helps,
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