OK, got it.
I really wasn't expecting to have to deal with TOASTs in what looks like a rather ordinary query -- perhaps there might
bea note in the documentation?
But thanks, that works just fine. Problem solved.
Regards
David M Bennett FACS
Andl - A New Database Language - andl.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Albe Laurenz [mailto:laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at]
> Sent: Monday, 18 April 2016 6:05 PM
> To: 'david@andl.org *EXTERN*' <david@andl.org>; pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: RE: [GENERAL] How to detoast a column of type BYTEAOID
>
> david@andl.org wrote:
> > I am attempting to create a new language implementation. The language
> > is Andl (andl.org), so the handler is plandl.
> > I am having a bit of trouble executing SPI queries from inside plandl.
> >
> > The particular problem arises after calling SPI_cursor_fetch() and
> > then
> > SPI_getbinval() on a column of type BYTEA (BYTEAOID 17). I was
> > expecting to get back a Datum of type bytea, but the length is crazy.
> > From the look of the data, I suspect that what I have is a compressed
> > TOAST, and I don't know how to handle those.
> >
> > 1. Does SPI_getbinval() indeed return compressed TOAST values?
> > 2. If so, what should I do (in general) to ensure the values I
> > retrieve are de-toasted?
>
> You should use the PG_DETOAST_DATUM* macros from fmgr.h; see the
> documentation there.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe