Re: carray_to_bytea?

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Ken Been <kbbeen(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: carray_to_bytea?
Date: 2015-10-22 17:16:55
Message-ID: 56291A07.1030207@BlueTreble.com
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On 10/22/15 12:13 PM, Ken Been wrote:
> My input is a byte array with a length.
> I can't assume zero-termination for varchar fields, so
> cstring_to_text_with_len
> is exactly what I need for those. For varbinary (i.e., bytea), you're
> right, it's
> just a couple of lines of code, but what if the implementation of struct
> varlena
> changes? Are we guaranteed that "palloc(len + VARHDRSZ)" will always
> allocate the correct amount?

Why not just (bytea) cstring_to_text_with_len(...) ?
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Jim Nasby, Data Architect, Blue Treble Consulting, Austin TX
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