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From Gregory Stark
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In response to Text <-> C string  ("Brendan Jurd" <direvus@gmail.com>)
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"Brendan Jurd" <direvus@gmail.com> writes:

> Surely having the exact same four lines of code written out in dozens
> of places is a Bad Thing, but perhaps there is some reasoning behind
> this that I am missing?

The canonical way to do it is with

DatumGetCString(DirectFunctionCall1(textout, t))


--  Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB          http://www.enterprisedb.com

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