SPI_getvalue
Name
SPI_getvalue -- return the string value of the specified column
Synopsis
char * SPI_getvalue(HeapTuple row, TupleDesc rowdesc, int colnumber)
Description
SPI_getvalue
returns the string representation of the value of the specified column.
The result is returned in memory allocated using palloc
. (You can use pfree
to release the memory when you don't need it anymore.)
Arguments
-
HeapTuple row
-
input row to be examined
-
TupleDesc rowdesc
-
input row description
-
int colnumber
-
column number (count starts at 1)
Return Value
Column value, or NULL if the column is null, colnumber is out of range (SPI_result is set to SPI_ERROR_NOATTRIBUTE), or no no output function available (SPI_result is set to SPI_ERROR_NOOUTFUNC).