Re: Custom Base Type in C

From: Dimitri Fontaine <dim(at)hi-media(dot)com>
To: Toby Chavez <odnamr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Custom Base Type in C
Date: 2008-05-08 12:03:39
Message-ID: 80CEC780-884D-406B-9CD7-05E731915E71@hi-media.com
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Hi,

Le 8 mai 08 à 01:06, Toby Chavez a écrit :

> My custom type needs to have one biginteger and one text value...
> pretty straight forward. I guess my first question is if there are
> any examples out there that do something similar. I have looked
> extensively through the contrib directory and can't find anything
> very helpful.

You could have a look at the prefix module, which defines a varlena
prefix_range datatype, which is a C struct containing two char and a
char* elements.
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/prefix

But maybe you just don't need to define the type in C, this I can't say.

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dim
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