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From Ken Been
Subject Re: carray_to_bytea?
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In response to Re: carray_to_bytea?  (Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@BlueTreble.com>)
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Yeah, I thought of that (actually bytea *), but then you have to assume that bytea and text will always be typedef'ed to the same thing.  (Is casting between different non-void pointer types, even if they are compatible, a warning/error in C?  I can't remember.)

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Jim Nasby <Jim.Nasby@bluetreble.com> wrote:
On 10/22/15 12:13 PM, Ken Been wrote:
My input is a byte array with a length.
I can't assume zero-termination for varchar fields, so
cstring_to_text_with_len
is exactly what I need for those. For varbinary (i.e., bytea), you're
right, it's
just a couple of lines of code, but what if the implementation of struct
varlena
changes?  Are we guaranteed that "palloc(len + VARHDRSZ)" will always
allocate the correct amount?

 Why not just (bytea) cstring_to_text_with_len(...) ?
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