
hello!

I tried to make a function, like strftime in C
called pstrtime( format, date )

here's the source... but when I compile it and create the function
under 6.3.2 first time it gives back an emty string.. after the backend 
stops ;(

please correct my faults,
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#include <stdio.h>                              /* for sprintf() */
#include <string.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include "postgres.h"
#include "miscadmin.h"
#include "utils/builtins.h"
#include "utils/nabstime.h"
#include "utils/datetime.h"
#include "access/xact.h"

#define JDATE_2000      2451545

char       *pstrtime(char *format, DateADT val);


char *
pstrtime( char *format , DateADT val)
{
        int                     year,
                                month,
                                day;
        struct tm * time1;
        char *sometext;
        sometext = malloc(100);
        time1 = malloc(sizeof(struct tm));

        j2date(val + JDATE_2000, &year, &month, &day);

        time1->tm_year=year;
        time1->tm_mon=month-1;
        time1->tm_mday=day;

        strftime(sometext,90,format,time1 );
        free(time1);
        return( sometext );
}


anyway how to create this function under psql ?
C type               postgres type
-----------------------------------
DateADT			date
char * 			???????????

thanks,

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Sat, 13 Jun 1998 09:08:38 +0200 (CEST)
Zsolt Varga <redax@agria.hu>
my strftime func doesn't work. please help.
Zsolt Varga writes:
> I tried to make a function, like strftime in C
> called pstrtime( format, date )
> 
> here's the source... but when I compile it and create the function
> under 6.3.2 first time it gives back an emty string.. after the backend 
> stops ;(
> 
> please correct my faults,
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> #include <stdio.h>                              /* for sprintf() */
> #include <string.h>
> #include <limits.h>
> #include "postgres.h"
> #include "miscadmin.h"
> #include "utils/builtins.h"
> #include "utils/nabstime.h"
> #include "utils/datetime.h"
> #include "access/xact.h"
> 
> #define JDATE_2000      2451545
> 
> char       *pstrtime(char *format, DateADT val);
> 
> 
> char *
> pstrtime( char *format , DateADT val)
> {
>         int                     year,
>                                 month,
>                                 day;
>         struct tm * time1;
>         char *sometext;
>         sometext = malloc(100);
>         time1 = malloc(sizeof(struct tm));
> 
>         j2date(val + JDATE_2000, &year, &month, &day);
> 
>         time1->tm_year=year;
>         time1->tm_mon=month-1;
>         time1->tm_mday=day;
> 
>         strftime(sometext,90,format,time1 );
>         free(time1);
>         return( sometext );
> }


I don't see what is causing your failure, perhaps you might want to test
it under gdb. But, you are using malloc() way too much which will make this
quite slow and wastful of memory. Also, you probably should be using palloc()
not malloc() or it will cause the backend to leak memory. For example:

char *
pstrtime( char *format , DateADT val)
{
	int 	year,
		month,
		day;
	struct tm time1;
	char	buf[256];
	char	*result;

	j2date(val + JDATE_2000, &year, &month, &day);
	memset(time1, 0,  sizeof(time1));
	time1.tm_year = year;
	time1.tm_mon = month-1;
	time1.tm_mday = day;

	strftime(buf, 90, format, &time1);

	result = palloc(1 + strlen(buf));
	if (result)
	   strcpy(result, buf, sizeof(buf))
	return result;
}

-dg

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Sat, 13 Jun 1998 13:49:50 -0700 (PDT)
dg@illustra.com (David Gould)
Re: [HACKERS] my strftime func doesn't work. please help.