On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:55:59AM +0400, Victor B. Wagner wrote: > BTW, what should I do if I want to submit entirely new directory into > contrib - shall I make a patch against current source tree or just > archive of this directory would do?
Diffs are better, unless it really is a lot of code. > > numeric_in converts a text string to a numeric. Don't know about 128 > > bit strings though. > > This works. But I was unable to look up information about this function > in the docs, and have to resort to looking for its usage in the backend > sources. Every type has conversion functions for cstring-to-type and type-to-cstring, which used when parsing queries. You can use these functions in normal code also. timestamp_in/out, data_in/out, etc... > I've also unable to find useful description of DirectFunctionCallN > family of functions, which seems to be neccessary to call one 'C' > language PostgreSQL function from another. > > It is clear enough from examples in the sources, but... Hmm, documentation patches welcome... Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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