Re: Fixed length data types issue

Tom Lane wrote:
> Mark Dilger <pgsql@markdilger.com> writes:
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Please provide a stack trace --- AFAIK there shouldn't be any reason why
>>> a pass-by-ref 3-byte type wouldn't work.
> 
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  0xb7e01d45 in memcpy () from /lib/libc.so.6
>> #1  0x08077ece in heap_fill_tuple (tupleDesc=0x83c2ef7, 
>> values=0x83c2e84, isnull=0x83c2e98 "", data=0x83c2ef4 "", 
>> infomask=0x83c2ef0, bit=0x0)
>>      at heaptuple.c:181
> 
> Hm, are you sure you provided a valid pointer (not the integer value
> itself) as the Datum output from int3_in?
> 
> (Looks at patch ... ) Um, I think you didn't, although that coding
> is far too cute to be actually readable ...
> 
>             regards, tom lane

I tracked this down to my implementation of Int24GetDatum.  I've got 
that fixed now and have hit another bug, but I'm still working on it so 
I won't bother you about that yet.

As for the patch, I will eventually submit a version without the "cute" 
code autogeneration stuff.

mark