Help with Array Function in C language...
Hello, I'm doing a very simple C language function in PostgreSQL but I can't
figure out why this is not working, the documentation about the PostgreSQL
internals is not so good about arrays and I couldn't find a suitable example
of the use of some kind of array functions inside the pgsql source tree.
I'm trying to get the N item from any array passed as argument, this could
be the SQL declaration of my function:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_array(integer, anyarray) RETURNS anyelement
AS 'test.so' LANGUAGE 'C';
And the function could look like this:
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(test_array);
Datum
test_array(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
ArrayType *v = PG_GETARG_ARRAYTYPE_P(1);
Datum element;
Oid array_type = get_array_type(v);
int typlen;
bool typbyval;
char typalign;
get_typlenbyvalalign(array_type, &typlen, &typbyval, &typalign);
element = array_ref(v, 1, PG_GETARG_INT32(0), ARR_SIZE(v), typlen,
typbyval, typalign, false);
PG_RETURN_DATUM(element);
}
The function compiles without error, but when I try something like that:
SELECT test_array(3, array[1,2,3,4,5,6]);
It returns to me an error like this:
ERROR: cache lookup failed for type 0
What is wrong here?
"Cristian Prieto" <cristian@clickdiario.com> writes:
Datum
test_array(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
ArrayType *v = PG_GETARG_ARRAYTYPE_P(1);
Datum element;
Oid array_type = get_array_type(v);
I think you want get_element_type, instead. And you definitely ought to
be checking for a failure result (zero).
regards, tom lane
Thanks a lot, but I still getting an error message like this:
ERROR: cache lookup failed for type 0
What is wrong?
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Tom Lane
Sent: Lunes, 07 de Noviembre de 2005 05:17 p.m.
To: Cristian Prieto
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org; pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Help with Array Function in C language...
"Cristian Prieto" <cristian@clickdiario.com> writes:
Datum
test_array(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
ArrayType *v = PG_GETARG_ARRAYTYPE_P(1);
Datum element;
Oid array_type = get_array_type(v);
I think you want get_element_type, instead. And you definitely ought to
be checking for a failure result (zero).
regards, tom lane
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