On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Marios Vodas <mvo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I index these structures in gist:
>
>> typedef struct {
>> uint8 type_flag;
>> float8 xi;
>> float8 yi;
>> Timestamp ti;
>> float8 xe;
>> float8 ye;
>> Timestamp te;
>> int32 id;
>> } typ_s_flagged;
>>
>> typedef struct {
>> uint8 type_flag;
>> float8 xl;
>> float8 yl;
>> Timestamp tl;
>> float8 xh;
>> float8 yh;
>> Timestamp th;
>> } typ_b_flagged;
>
> typ_s_flagged is the type of leaf entries and typ_b_flagged is for non-leaf
> entries.
> This is how I determine which type it is in functions union, picksplit,
> penalty etc (I tried to use GIST_LEAF but it produced errors in execution
> time!, anyway I know this might not be a best practice but it is not wrong).
>
>> GISTENTRY *entry = (GISTENTRY *) PG_GETARG_POINTER(0); //in penalty,
>> consistent
>>
>> //or GistEntryVector *entryvec = (GistEntryVector *) PG_GETARG_POINTER(0);
>> entry = &entryvec->vector[i]; in union and picksplit
>> uint8 *type_flag = (uint8 *) DatumGetPointer(entry->key);
>> if (*type_flag == 0) {
>> typ_s_flagged *p1 = (typ_s_flagged *) DatumGetPointer(entry->key);
>> } else if(*type_flag == 1){
>> typ_b_flagged *p2 = (typ_b_flagged *) DatumGetPointer(entry->key);
>> }
>
>
> The problem is that when I access p1->te or p1->id or p2->th the value I get
> is zeros, for both. But I get correct values for variables before p1->te.
> I checked my code multiple times and I didn't found a mistake like bad size
> in palloc or wrong variable assignment.
> I checked compress function and it seems to accept and return correct
> values.
> Does anyone have any idea on how to solve this? Or why it happens?
Is pg_type.typlen set correctly?
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