Re: GiST opclass and varlena

"Dimitri Fontaine" <dfontaine(at)hi-media(dot)com> writes:

> It turned around the error was related to the definition of my gpr_penalty()
> function, which I wanted to expose as the GiST "internal" and a SQL callable
> one too (for debugging and tests purpose). I forgot to define the internal
> one in the prefix.c side of things, got no complaint whatsover (nor at
> compile time neither at prefix.sql installation time) but garbage as data in
> __pr_penalty() function (not respecting GiST calling conventions).

I'm getting interested now. How was __pr_penalty defined? What was the
declaration you were missing in prefix.c?

Was it specifically related to a varlena or was it a char or something like
that?

And was it something gcc -Wall was warning about or somehow was it slipping
by?

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