Re: Extending SQL in C using VARIABLE length type

Carsten Kropf wrote:
> Oh, I see, does the VARSIZE length field have to be the total number of bytes occupied (including VARHDRSZ and the
sizeof the structure) or only the size that is used by "my" datatype? 
Yes
>  Then it would become pretty much obvious, why this is not supposed to work.
> I'll try it out then.
>
My €0,02: rename the dimensions to vl_len_ to avoid confusion and get
compiler errors where you now use 'dimension'. Add a macro that converts
a pointnd structure to dimension int by taking the VARSIZE_ANY_EXHDR /
sizeof(float8) and use it where dimension is used now. Or if your
database is small you could keep dimension in the structure.