Re: How to return a large String with C

Yes, I know, but the backend does not allow for a bigger buffer. Trying
> to use a 80K (char[81920])buffer did not work and returns:
> INFO: string-size : 48015
> INFO: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> server closed the connection unexpectedly
> This probably means the server terminated abnormally
> before or while processing the request.
> The connection to the server was lost. Attempting reset: Succeeded.
>
>
> The surprising thing is that the data can be displayed using elog but
> not returend with a string pointer.
> <http://archives.postgresql.org/>

You cannot just return pointer to stack (local for function) buffer - it
gets freed on return from the function. You must explicitly palloc required
memory chunk.