Re: Getting Text data as C string - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Getting Text data as C string
Date
Msg-id 200703121358.20418.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Getting Text data as C string  (Denis Gasparin <denis@edistar.com>)
Responses Re: Getting Text data as C string  (Denis Gasparin <denis@edistar.com>)
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Am Montag, 12. März 2007 12:47 schrieb Denis Gasparin:
> I wrote a simple c stored procedure that accepts only one text parameter
> that i want to convert to a c string.
> The problem is that i obtain the C string correctly but with spurious
> characters at the end... I use these calls to obtain the c string:

The data in a text datum is not null terminated.  You need to call the
function textout() to convert.  Grep the source code for examples of invoking
it.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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