Tom Lane wrote: > 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. That's what I get for not reading the whole threa dback, I missed the fact that it had ever worked. Oops :-) //Magnus
