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 output function is available (SPI_result is set to SPI_ERROR_NOOUTFUNC).