"James Moss" <jpmoss@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I could use a helpful suggestion or two as to why the following is > occuring or more to the matter, how I might work around it. Certainly > appears to be a bug or some sort of misunderstanding on my part. The content of a text datum is not guaranteed null-terminated, hence you can't just take VARDATA(a) as being a C string. The cleanest way to convert to C string if you need to is to call textout() --- look around in the sources for examples to copy. regards, tom lane
