Re: Implementing an expanded object in C

>>>>> "Michel" == Michel Pelletier <pelletier.michel@gmail.com> writes:

 Michel> Replying to my own problem here, I guess this was a situation
 Michel> where explaining it in detail revealed the problem to me. By
 Michel> specifying my type is 'passedbyvalue'

That cannot possibly be appropriate.

 Michel> CREATE TYPE matrix (
 Michel>     internallength = 8,

Your type is clearly not a fixed-length type, because fixed-length types
cannot have expanded datums. A fixed-length type must contain its entire
representation within the fixed length - it is not allowed to be a
pointer to something else.

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Andrew (irc:RhodiumToad)