Re: carray_to_bytea?

Yeah, I thought of that (actually bytea *), but then you have to assume
that bytea and text will always be typedef'ed to the same thing. (Is
casting between different non-void pointer types, even if they are
compatible, a warning/error in C? I can't remember.)

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com> wrote:

> 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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