Re: Checking return value of SPI_execute - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 05:21:25PM -0800, Mark Dilger wrote:
> please find attached a patch fixing a problem previously discussed [1] about
> the code inappropriately ignoring the return value from SPI_execute.
>
> I will be adding this to https://commitfest.postgresql.org/26/
> shortly.

Yes, this should be fixed.

> -    SPI_execute(query, true, 0);
> +    spi_result = SPI_execute(query, true, 0);
> +    if (spi_result < 0)
> +        elog(ERROR, "SPI_execute returned %s", SPI_result_code_string(spi_result));

Any queries processed in xml.c are plain SELECT queries, so it seems
to me that you need to check after SPI_OK_SELECT as only valid
result.
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Michael