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

From Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
Subject Re: C function accepting/returning cstring vs. text
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Msg-id 20100127161724.047815d6@dawn.webthatworks.it
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In response to Re: C function accepting/returning cstring vs. text  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: C function accepting/returning cstring vs. text  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>)
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On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:49:46 -0300
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:

> > 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.

Does this nearly translate to:
"nothing you should care about right now and anyway just functions
that won't return results to SQL"?

thanks

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Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
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