Re: function crashes backend

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 08:53:58AM +0200, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am writing a SPI function to run maintenance tasks on my auction
> system but it keeps crashing the backend after running only one loop.
> Now, I am not a C programmer, nor do I have any formal training in CS. I
> thought I might run this function by you guys so that a cursory look
> might reveal some obvious coding mistake?
>
> Thanks in advance for your insight.

Following up to myself, I finally understood my problem: I was trying to
re-use SPI_tuptable->vals[i] after calling SPI_exec() on another,
unrelated query. So the backend crash makes perfect sense now.

What is the best strategy:
- store the result of a SELECT returning multiple tuples into a local
SPITupleTable? How do I allocate memory for that?
- iterate over all values contained in the tuples and store _them_ into
char**, int*, arrays, before re-running SPI_exec() on the second query?

TIA

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