| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Itai Zukerman <zukerman(at)math-hat(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: btree_gist, gint4_union |
| Date: | 2003-03-17 19:59:46 |
| Message-ID: | 200303171959.h2HJxkN20021@candle.pha.pa.us |
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I am confused by your question. It seems it is declared as returning an
int.
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Itai Zukerman wrote:
> In contrib/btree_gist/ I see:
>
> CREATE FUNCTION gint4_union(bytea, internal)
> RETURNS int4
> AS 'MODULE_PATHNAME'
> LANGUAGE 'C';
>
> but gint4_union does this:
>
> INT4KEY *out = palloc(sizeof(INT4KEY));
> [...]
> PG_RETURN_POINTER(out);
>
> Is the int4 return type declared above a bug?
>
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