On 04/12/2007, Glen W. Mabey <Glen.Mabey@swri.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been trying to write a trigger in C operating on each row
> that would (as a first step) copy a field of type TEXT into a text*
> variable.
>
> I think that I've got the SPI_connect, SPI_fnumber, and SPI_getbinval
> calls correct, but this gives me a Datum.
>
> How do I convert a Datum to a text*?
>

use macro DatumGetPointer(datum)

Pavel

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