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

TupleDesc rowdesc

int colnumber

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).