Re: Returning bigint from C extension

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:58:21AM +0200, Jason Armstrong wrote:
> How can I return a bigint value from a C extension function?
>
> I have a table with a bytea column:
>
> CREATE TABLE mydata(data bytea);
>
> I would like to select and index based on a subset of the data:
>
> CREATE FUNCTION get_key(bytea) returns BIGINT AS '/lib/data.so'
> LANGUAGE C IMMUTABLE;
> CREATE INDEX mydata_key_idx on mydata(get_key(data));

For a bigint you need to use the right return type: PG_RETURN_INT64()

> (And, as a side note, is the above code the correct way to use bytea
> data from C?)

Looks ok.

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