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Old 04-09-2008, 02:32 PM
Peter Eisentraut
 
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Default Re: Getting Text data as C string

Am Montag, 12. März 2007 12:47 schrieb Denis Gasparin:
> I wrote a simple c stored procedure that accepts only one text parameter
> that i want to convert to a c string.
> The problem is that i obtain the C string correctly but with spurious
> characters at the end... I use these calls to obtain the c string:


The data in a text datum is not null terminated. You need to call the
function textout() to convert. Grep the source code for examples of invoking
it.

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