Jeremy Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I could not find such a thing using ctags, nor TextPGetDatum(). I looked > at PG_RETURN_TEXT_P and it just uses PG_RETURN_POINTER, which in turn uses > PointerGetDatum. If there is such a thing, it is well camoflaged...
AFAIR, the reason there's no TextPGetDatum (and ditto for lots of other datatypes) is lack of obvious usefulness. A function dealing with a "text *" doesn't normally have reason to convert that to a Datum until it returns --- and at that point PG_RETURN_TEXT_P is the thing to use. Do you have a counterexample, or does this just suggest that the regexp function patch needs some refactoring? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster