Re: Bad behaviour when inserting unspecified variable length

> Uh, what did your CREATE TYPE command look like, exactly?  This sounds
> like you specified a default value for the datatype.

Okay, here's two examples;

CREATE TYPE WKB (internallength = VARIABLE,input =  WKB_in,output =  WKB_out,storage= extended
);


CREATE TYPE GEOMETRY (alignment = double,internallength = VARIABLE,input =  geometry_in,output =  geometry_out,storage
=main
 
);


I've tried the WKB type with a "DEFAULT = NULL" clause and all the
different storage types.  The same problem occurs everytime.

Here's the create function statements for the _in and _out functions;

create function WKB_in(opaque)RETURNS WKB  AS '@MODULE_FILENAME@','WKB_in'  LANGUAGE 'c' with (isstrict);

create function WKB_out(opaque)RETURNS opaque  AS '@MODULE_FILENAME@','WKB_out'  LANGUAGE 'c' with (isstrict);

create function geometry_in(opaque)RETURNS GEOMETRY  AS '@MODULE_FILENAME@'  LANGUAGE 'c' with (isstrict);

create function geometry_out(opaque)RETURNS opaque  AS '@MODULE_FILENAME@'  LANGUAGE 'c' with (isstrict);



> Maybe you need to show us your datatype's I/O functions, too.

I dont thing they're important.  WKB_in and geometry_in are *never*
called, and WKB_out and geometry_out are called with bad values.  Only
one line of my code is executed in the _out functions.  
WellKnownBinary              *WKB = (WellKnownBinary *) 
PG_DETOAST_DATUM(PG_GETARG_DATUM(0));
    or
GEOMETRY           *geom1 = (GEOMETRY *) 
PG_DETOAST_DATUM(PG_GETARG_DATUM(0));

(See below for a simpler example)

> Since
> this works perfectly fine for the standard variable-length datatypes,

Yes, on system (7.1.2 under solaris) the following works;create table ttt (i integer, mytext text);insert into ttt
values(1);select * from ttt;i | mytext 
 
---+----1 | 
(1 row)


Here's the simplest example I can come up with to show the problem;

create function WKB_in2(opaque)       RETURNS WKB  AS
'/data1/Refractions/Projects/PostGIS/work_dave/postgis/libpostgis.so.0.5','WKB_in2'  LANGUAGE 'c' with (isstrict);

create function WKB_out2(opaque)       RETURNS opaque  AS
'/data1/Refractions/Projects/PostGIS/work_dave/postgis/libpostgis.so.0.5','WKB_out2'  LANGUAGE 'c' with (isstrict);


CREATE TYPE WKB (       internallength = VARIABLE,       input =  WKB_in2,       output =  WKB_out2,       storage=
extended
);


dave=#  create table m (i integer, mywkb wkb);
dave=#  insert into m values (1);
dave=#  select * from m;i | mywkb 
---+-------1 | me
(1 row)


You'll also get this output from the printf in WKB_out (ASCII 45 is the
"-" char);
WKB_out2: WKB has length 5 and 1st value 45


typedef struct Well_known_bin {int32 size;    // total size of this structureunsigned char  data[1]; //THIS HOLDS
VARIABLELENGTH DATA
 
} WellKnownBinary;



PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(WKB_in2);
Datum WKB_in2(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{char               *str = PG_GETARG_CSTRING(0);printf("I never get here!\n");
PG_RETURN_NULL();
}

PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(WKB_out2);
Datum WKB_out2(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{WellKnownBinary              *WKB = (WellKnownBinary *) 
PG_DETOAST_DATUM(PG_GETARG_DATUM(0));char                    *result;
printf("WKB_out2: WKB has length %i and 1st value %i\n", WKB->size, 
(int) ((char *)WKB)[4] );
// return something
result = palloc(3);result[0] = 'm';result[1] = 'e';result[2] = 0;
PG_RETURN_CSTRING(result);
}