Re: Getting char * from timestamp in a composite type

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 04:40:38PM +0100, Michael Akinde wrote:
>
>> As I understand it, I should be able to do something like (assuming
>> "time" is the attribute name):
>>
>> bool isNull;
>> HeapTupleHeader t = DatumGetHeapTupleHeader(row);
>> Datum var = GetAttributeByName( row, "time", & isNull );
>> // Check for null
>> char * ret = DatumGetCString( DirectFunctionCall1(textout, var ) );
>>
>
> That's not going to work. textout wants a text datum. Try calling
> timestamp_out instead..
Sigh... it's always the idiot bugs that are the hardest to see. Thanks a
lot.

Regards,

Michael A.