Re: I am confused about PointerGetDatum among other things

I forgot to say that what gets
inserted into the index table
is not what I want.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 11:25:27AM -0400, newsreader@mediaone.net wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am hacking the full text indexing
> c trigger found in contrib to suit my need. 
> (I am a C idiot having never written any
> program in it)
> 
> Anyhow I have gotten all I want except
> this last feature: to use a column other
> than oid.
> 
> I have the following added
> 
> 	char *id;
> ..
>         colnum=SPI_fnumber(tupdesc,args[2]);
>         id=SPI_getvalue(rettuple,tupdesc,colnum);
> 
> 
> 
> I have also verified that id contains the column
> I want by doing
> 	elog(ERROR,id);
> and it does
> 
> Now the original author uses
> 	Datum values[2];
> to insert the data and he has
> 	values[0] = PointerGetDatum(data);
> before he does
> 	ret = SPI_execp(*(plan->splan), values, NULL, 0);
> 
> So I tried something
> 	values[1]=PointerGetDatum(id);
> as well as other variations without that
> function.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help
> 
> 
> 
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