Re: Custom Base Type in C - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Custom Base Type in C
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Msg-id 20080507231509.GU20150@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Custom Base Type in C  ("Toby Chavez" <odnamr@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Custom Base Type in C  ("Toby Chavez" <odnamr@gmail.com>)
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Toby Chavez escribió:

> My custom type needs to have one biginteger and one text value... pretty
> straight forward. I guess my first question is if there are any examples out
> there that do something similar. I have looked extensively through the
> contrib directory and can't find anything very helpful. If not, could
> someone help me understand what my c struct would look like and what values
> I need for INTERNALLENGTH, ALIGNMENT, STORAGE, etc in the CREATE TYPE
> command?

Probably what's biting you is that the type needs to be
pass-by-reference and varlena.

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