Re: heap_form_tuple crashing

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Atri Sharma <atri(dot)jiit(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> My call to heap_form_tuple looks like:
>> val1=0;
>> tupledesc1=BlessTupleDesc(node->ss.ss_currentRelation->rd_att);
>> tuple=heap_form_tuple(tupledesc1,p1,&val1);
>
>> p1 is a pointer to a Datum instance which is created from a char array.
>
> Does that actually match the tupdesc you're using?  Are you sure you
> created the Datum correctly (ie, did you call the appropriate datatype
> input routine)?
>
> BTW, the BlessTupleDesc call here seems to be pure cargo-cult
> programming.  It should not be necessary to bless a relation's tupdesc
> (because that should be a named type already); and even if it were,
> heap_form_tuple doesn't care.
>
>                        regards, tom lane

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the advice and help.Your diagnosis is correct,I used the
correct datatype input routine and it worked like a charm.

I will remove the calls to BlessTupleDesc then?

Atri

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Regards,

Atri
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