Re: new type question

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 11:03:52AM +0200, Sim Zacks wrote:
> create function uint_in(val cstring) returns uint2 as
> $$
> declare thisval int4;
> begin
> thisval=val::int4
> if thisval between 0 and 65535 then
> return (thisval-32768)::int2;
> else
> return 0;
> end if;
> end
> $$ language 'plpgsql';

On a side note, do you really want to punt to 0 when an invalid value
comes it? That sounds like something MySQL would do... ISTM you should
throw an error.

Also, you could have written that as a pure SQL function, which would
have been faster (assuming you could use something other than C for
this).
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