Magnus Hagander <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Geoffrey wrote: >> CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION pcm_getmiles_s(text,text,integer) >> RETURNS float8 AS '/esc/pgrnd/prog/libpcmiler' >> LANGUAGE 'c' WITH (isStrict); > Is this function actually a PostgreSQL callable function? Or is it just > a general C function along the line of > float pcm_getmiles_s(char*, char*, int) > ? The code would never have worked at all if that were the case (since text* is not like char*). I suspect some subtler portability issue in Geoffrey's glue functions. It seems unlikely that moving from PG 7.4.13 to 7.4.16 would in itself have exposed such a problem, but the update in operating environment from RHEL3 to RHEL4 might've. regards, tom lane
