I was looking at the tutorial code (funcs.c) a bit more
and it seems that a bulk of the work going on for the
"copytext" and "concat16" (soon to be defunct *smile* )
is converting from string to datum and then back again.
Perhaps if two functions were added to the SPI that
did this operation...
Datum SPI_stringtodatum(const char *type, const char *data);
const char *SPI_datumtostring(Datum data);
These two functions would lookup the type in the
type table, find the input/output functions for
the datatype and make the call.
Thoughts?
Clark
