Re: Weird problems with C extension and bytea as input type - Mailing list pgsql-general

Adrian Schreyer <ams214@cam.ac.uk> writes:
> The actual C++ function looks roughly like this

> extern "C"
> char *function(bytea *b)
> {
>    string ism;
>    [...]
>    return ism.c_str();
> }

My C++ is pretty rusty, but is the pointer returned by c_str() still
valid after the string variable goes out of scope?  I'm wondering if you
need a pstrdup before returning.

            regards, tom lane