Re: [HACKERS] Troubles with array_ref

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Cristian Prieto" <cristian(at)clickdiario(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Troubles with array_ref
Date: 2005-11-08 22:12:52
Message-ID: 9297.1131487972@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Cristian Prieto" <cristian(at)clickdiario(dot)com> writes:
> Well, anyway, this is the Stored Function I've been workin on; it simply
> take an array and an integer just to return this item from the array; The
> array could have any kind of elements so I declare it as anyarray (the
> parameter) and anyelement (the return value), please help me, I don't know
> where to get info about it.

You could save yourself a lot of time if you enabled warnings from your
C compiler (eg, -Wall for gcc) and then paid some attention to them.
The last parameter to array_ref is a bool *, not a bool, and I have no
doubt that the backend is crashing while trying to dereference "false".

(Another problem is that the fourth parameter should be -1 not VARSIZE.)

regards, tom lane

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