Re: question on some code.

Chris Bowlby <excalibur(at)accesswave(dot)ca> writes:
> I understand the concept of the code, to append binary values to a string
> buffer (char *), but, under my compiler on FreeBSD 5.4.x (gcc (GCC) 3.4.2
> [FreeBSD] 20040728) I see a few issues that have cropped up.

You've got a broken compiler then, because it certainly works for
everyone else. That function's been substantially unchanged since
... hmm ... version 1.1 of pqformat.c dated 25 Apr 1999. And I'm
fairly sure that I got it from some older code rather than writing
it from scratch when I made that file.

> Through some testing that I've been doing (outputting the values in
> the appendBinaryStringInfo function), I never seem to see any data, The
> variable pointer that references the "n8, n16, or n32" value is not holding
> any data in the appendBinaryStringInfo function.

Define "never seem to see any data"...

regards, tom lane