Re: backend reset of database - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: backend reset of database
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Msg-id 461A86BF.60109@hagander.net
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In response to Re: backend reset of database  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-general
Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
>> Geoffrey wrote:
>>> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pcm_getmiles_s(text,text,integer)
>>> RETURNS float8 AS '/esc/pgrnd/prog/libpcmiler'
>>> LANGUAGE 'c' WITH (isStrict);
>
>> Is this function actually a PostgreSQL callable function? Or is it just
>> a general C function along the line of
>> float pcm_getmiles_s(char*, char*, int)
>> ?
>
> The code would never have worked at all if that were the case (since
> text* is not like char*).  I suspect some subtler portability issue in
> Geoffrey's glue functions.  It seems unlikely that moving from PG 7.4.13
> to 7.4.16 would in itself have exposed such a problem, but the update in
> operating environment from RHEL3 to RHEL4 might've.

That's what I get for not reading the whole threa dback, I missed the
fact that it had ever worked. Oops :-)

//Magnus

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