Hiya, I'm trying to write a function that takes a text argument as input, and converts it to a C
string to then use for file I/O.
However it crashes my postgres when it gets to the memcpy line (e.g. you get the Test A
notice and the Test B notice, but not the Test C notice)
The odd thing is my code is now based on genfile.c and I cannot see what I'm doing
differently/wrong.
http://cvs.pgadmin.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/pgadmin-tools/support/genfile.c?rev=HEAD
I compile using the commands
gcc -c qpsolve.c -I/usr/src/postgresql-7.4.2/src/include
gcc -shared -o qpsolve.so qpsolve.o
cp qpsolve.so /usr/local/pgsql/lib -f
My command to create the function is
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION F_QPSOLVE(text) RETURNS text
AS 'qpsolve.so'
LANGUAGE 'C' WITH (isStrict);
This is my source code, qpsolve.c
****
#include "postgres.h"
#include "fmgr.h"
/* Routine to write session variables */
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(f_qpsolve);
text * f_qpsolve(text *arg)
{char *filename;
int len=VARSIZE(arg)-VARHDRSZ;elog(NOTICE, "test A");
filename = palloc(len+1);
elog(NOTICE, "test B");memcpy(filename,VARDATA(arg), len);
elog(NOTICE, "test C");
filename[len]=0;
elog(NOTICE, filename);
return 0;
}
****
Your help solving this would be much appreciated.
All the best,Sam