Re: User defined type with text* field

From: Ken Kachnowich <khkachn(at)telocity(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: User defined type with text* field
Date: 2001-07-01 16:04:29
Message-ID: 3B3F4A0D.4FC128AA@telocity.com
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What I want to do is create a Serialize type for storing Java objects.
The text would be the class name and the Oid would point to the record
where the object is stored. I need the class name and not the Oid of the
table because of a problem I have with long class names (> 32
characters).

If I figure out how to make this a "varlena" value would variable then
work
for the length specification in the create type command?

Are there any examples of varlena user types I could look at?

Thanks,

Ken

> Ken K <kenmail(at)telocity(dot)com> writes:
>> I am trying to create a user defined type with 2 fields
>> in it, a text* and an Oid. I am not sure what size to
>> use in the create type command. When I try variable
>> the back end core dumps. Are there any examples for
>> doing this sort of thing? Is it even doable?
>
>You can't use any kind of pointer in a datatype --- what is it going to
>point to? There's nothing it could point at that might live as long as
>the datavalue on disk will.
>
>You could embed a TEXT value into a larger varlena value, say
>
> <total length word>
> Oid
> <text value here, beginning with its own length word>
>
>
> regards, tom lane

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