>>>>> "Michel" == Michel Pelletier <pelletier(dot)michel(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
Michel> Replying to my own problem here, I guess this was a situation
Michel> where explaining it in detail revealed the problem to me. By
Michel> specifying my type is 'passedbyvalue'
That cannot possibly be appropriate.
Michel> CREATE TYPE matrix (
Michel> internallength = 8,
Your type is clearly not a fixed-length type, because fixed-length types
cannot have expanded datums. A fixed-length type must contain its entire
representation within the fixed length - it is not allowed to be a
pointer to something else.
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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)