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From: aataneja@cs.mtu.edu (Bruce Taneja.)
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Subject: complex data types ..
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Date: Thu, 26 May 1994 00:28:45 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: aataneja@cs.mtu.edu (Bruce Taneja.)
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Is there a way to call the user-defined-data-type functions 
in the data types that use those simpler data types .. ;=) example follows:

******************
	/* from pyramid.c  

A pyramid is constructed out of a base circle and a point at certain
height above the center of the circle */
******************

typedef struct{
	CIRCLE 	c;
	double height;
	} PYRAMID;


******************
/* intended input format:
		create table-x (pyramid1 = pyramid) \g

		append to table-x (pyramid1 = "(2, (3.0, 1.1, 2.1))" )

	please doing worry about syntax errors ;), following is the crux: */
******************

PYRAMID pyramid_in (str)
char * str
{
   pyramid * result ;

	/* BLAH - BLAH parser  */

result->height = atof (etc "2");

******************
/*  *** now how in the world do I call the circle_in function (parser) here
and let it parse the rest of the "(3.0, 1.1, 2.1)" from above append .. 

 One simple way would be to go result->c.center.x= .. , result->c.radius=... etc

but I do NOT want to do this .. !! .. knowing some way of calling parsers
from sub-data-types will help tremendously parsing data at higher level of
nestings .. */
******************

Q.2 does some body know at how many nested levels of complex data types
does postgres becomes unstable ... ?????

Q.3 Can we use nested structs within a single new-data.c file  (like circle.c)

******************
thanks a lot folks for listening in, hope u know more that I do !
Bruce!

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