Re: user defined type - Mailing list pgsql-novice

Kjetil Haaland <kjetil.haaland@student.uib.no> writes:
>    first = palloc(sizeof(char)*secondStart);
>    elog(NOTICE, "2:first=%s", first);
>    elog(NOTICE, "strlen(first)=%d", strlen(first));

This is bogus because you've only allocated space, not filled it with
anything.  It will contain whatever that RAM was last used for.

            regards, tom lane