Re: BUG #5769: Problem with SPI_getvalue

You are right.
In my case I obviously had corrupted the heap somewhere else - now it works as
expected.

Thanks for your quick answer,
Helmar

Am Donnerstag, 25. November 2010 16:11:03 schrieb Heikki Linnakangas:
> On 25.11.2010 13:45, Helmar Spangenberg wrote:
> > Bug reference:      5769
> > Logged by:          Helmar Spangenberg
> > Email address:      hspangenberg@frey.de
> > PostgreSQL version: 9.0.1
> > Operating system:   Linux
> > Description:        Problem with SPI_getvalue
> > Details:
> >
> > Referring to the manual, I can pfree the result returned by SPI_getvalue.
> > However the backend crashes as soon as I use pfree.
> >
> > No example uses pfree. Could it be possible, there is a bug in the
> > documentation?
>
> The return value of SPI_getvalue is certainly palloc()'d, so pfree()ing
> it should not crash. Perhaps you are trying to pfree() it after the
> whole memory context has already been destroyed. Or perhaps SPI_getvalue
> returned a NULL and you're trying to pfree() that. Can't say without
> more details.
>