Re: Custom Base Type in C

If I make it pass-by-reference and varlena do I have to worry about TOASTing
and deTOASTing everying in my INPUT and OUTPUT functions?

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
wrote:

> Toby Chavez escribió:
>
> > 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. If not, could
> > someone help me understand what my c struct would look like and what
> values
> > I need for INTERNALLENGTH, ALIGNMENT, STORAGE, etc in the CREATE TYPE
> > command?
>
> Probably what's biting you is that the type needs to be
> pass-by-reference and varlena.
>
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