Re: carray_to_bytea?

On 10/22/15 12:13 PM, Ken Been wrote:
> My input is a byte array with a length.
> I can't assume zero-termination for varchar fields, so
> cstring_to_text_with_len
> is exactly what I need for those. For varbinary (i.e., bytea), you're
> right, it's
> just a couple of lines of code, but what if the implementation of struct
> varlena
> changes?  Are we guaranteed that "palloc(len + VARHDRSZ)" will always
> allocate the correct amount?

Why not just (bytea) cstring_to_text_with_len(...) ?
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