Re: Saving SRF context - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Salvador Fandiño
Subject Re: Saving SRF context
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Msg-id 56E40494.3050305@gmail.com
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In response to Saving SRF context  (Salvador Fandiño <sfandino@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On 03/11/2016 09:19 PM, Salvador Fandiño wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have implemented a SRF[*] that returns rows one by one (using
> ExprMultipleResult). But now I need to save somewhere some context
> information between calls pertaining to the same result set and I am
> unable to find a proper place for that.
>
> I have seen that cfinfo->flinfo->fn_extra is available, but if I
> understand the mechanics of FmgrInfo correctly, that structure is not
> unique for call frame. It could be shared between several cfinfo
> structures and would be crushed on recursion (I plan to use SPI from my
> function).
>
> So, is that right? should I build a stack there? is there any other
> place where to store context information relative to a SRF call frame?

Replying to myself, pretty much I wanted to know is documented here:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/xfunc-c.html





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