Re: SPI_exec doesn't return proc context (on 9.1)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SPI_exec doesn't return proc context (on 9.1)
Date: 2011-02-10 22:23:35
Message-ID: 1297376539-sup-8672@alvh.no-ip.org
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Excerpts from Pavel Stehule's message of sáb ene 29 16:56:40 -0300 2011:
> 2011/1/29 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:

> > The less crocky way to do that is to use SPI_palloc() for something that
> > should be allocated in the outer context.
>
> I understand. Is there some way, where I can use a cstring_to_text
> function? There isn't simple way to get a saveCtx.
>
> some like SPI_copyDatum ... ?

I wrote such a patch some time ago but never applied it ...
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20091116162531.GA3669@alvh.no-ip.org
I still wonder if it's useful enough to be applied. Would it solve your
use case?

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