You are right. In my case I obviously had corrupted the heap somewhere else - now it works as expected.
Thanks for your quick answer, Helmar Am Donnerstag, 25. November 2010 16:11:03 schrieb Heikki Linnakangas: > On 25.11.2010 13:45, Helmar Spangenberg wrote: > > Bug reference: 5769 > > Logged by: Helmar Spangenberg > > Email address: hspangenb...@frey.de > > PostgreSQL version: 9.0.1 > > Operating system: Linux > > Description: Problem with SPI_getvalue > > Details: > > > > Referring to the manual, I can pfree the result returned by SPI_getvalue. > > However the backend crashes as soon as I use pfree. > > > > No example uses pfree. Could it be possible, there is a bug in the > > documentation? > > The return value of SPI_getvalue is certainly palloc()'d, so pfree()ing > it should not crash. Perhaps you are trying to pfree() it after the > whole memory context has already been destroyed. Or perhaps SPI_getvalue > returned a NULL and you're trying to pfree() that. Can't say without > more details. > -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs
