On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Greg Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> But you have an additional problem for typbyval types: the pointer to
> Datum isn't necessarily pointing at the right bytes. I think you have
> to use the GET_[1248]_BYTES macros depending on typlen. There may be a
> helper function for this but I don't know of one.
Actually on further thought I think I would suggest just storing the
whole datum for all typbyval types setting your bytea length to
SIZEOF_DATUM.
And use datumGetSize() for non-typbyval datums. Assuming you have
typbyval and typlen handy.
--
greg
