Re: Dead code?

On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 01:42:57PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote:
> Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> writes:
>
> > attlen -2 is used for cstring (null terminated strings).
> >
> > Hope this helps,
>
> Well that's what the code I quoted indicates. But when do we ever store a
> cstring in a tuple? Certainly I can't find any standard data types that use
> it.

# select textout('text');
textout
---------
text
(1 row)

The output is cstring, and stored in a tuple to send...

Hope this helps,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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