Re: C function accepting/returning cstring vs. text - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:

> What's not included in "on SQL level almost everything is text"?

input and output functions always use cstring rather than text.  The I/O
functions are normally not used directly at the SQL level.

> There are a lot of functions in contrib taking cstring input and
> returning cstring output.
> Are they just in the same "special" class of [type]in, [type]out
> [type]recv... functions?

Probably, but I didn't check.

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