Thank you Ashutosh*.* That was the issue. But, could you please explain why
it worked from command line?
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Ashutosh Bapat <
ashutosh.ba...@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> You may have to add code to copy inp_str to _copyVacuumStmt(). See how a
> character array being copied from other _copy* functions.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Ashoke <s.ash...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> I have defined a new command my_command in PostgreSQL. This command
>> takes the path of ANALYZE and inside analyze.c, I have a function to do
>> some operations if its my_command.This command takes the input
>> arguments: table name, column name and an input string.
>>
>> my_command nation (n_nationkey) 'input string';
>>
>> When I run this command from command line psql, it works as expected.
>> But when I call the same command from a java application, the variable that
>> stores the input string is NULL.
>>
>> I printed the value of the input string in gram.y file where I have
>> defined my_command.
>> fprintf (stderr, "I am inside gram.y %s\n",n->inp_str); and the input
>> string is printed correctly.
>>
>> But when I print stmt->inp_str in the function standard_ProcessUtility()
>> of utility.c for the case T_VacuumStmt, I get the value as NULL. This
>> is as far as I could trace back from analyze.c.
>>
>> I am not sure how executing the same command from an application can make
>> a difference.
>>
>> gram.y content gist:
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> MyStmt:
>> my_keyword qualified_name name_list my_inp_str
>> {
>> VacuumStmt *n = makeNode(VacuumStmt);
>> n->options = VACOPT_ANALYZE;
>> n->freeze_min_age = -1;
>> n->freeze_table_age = -1;
>> n->relation = $2;
>> n->va_cols = $3;
>> n->inp_str = $4;
>> fprintf (stderr, "I am inside gram.y %s\n",n->inp_str);
>>
>> $$ = (Node *)n;
>> };
>>
>> char *inp_str is added to the struct VacuumStmt in parsenodes.h
>>
>> ---------------------------
>>
>> Only the newly added char *inp_str(that is different from ANALYZE) value
>> is NULL. I was able to retrieve the column name from va_cols.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Ashoke
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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> Best Wishes,
> Ashutosh Bapat
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>
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Regards,
Ashoke
