At 21:31 19/11/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au> writes:
>> At 17:16 19/11/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>
http://www.postgresql.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/pgsql/src/backend/utils/fmgr/README
>
>> There is no mention of the handling of toasted values for old C functions.
>
>Did you not read to the end?
'fraid not...8-(. Thanks.
>: To allow old-style dynamic functions to work safely on toastable datatypes,
>: the handler for old-style functions will automatically detoast toastable
>: arguments before passing them to the old-style function. A new-style
>: function is expected to take care of toasted arguments by using the
>: standard argument access macros defined above.
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