On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Atri Sharma <atri.j...@gmail.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 -- Regards, Atri l'apprenant -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
