Clarify the distinction between public and private SPITupleTable fields.

The fields that we consider public are "tupdesc" and "vals", which
historically are in the middle of the struct.  Move them to the front
(this should be perfectly safe to do in HEAD) and add comments to make
it quite clear which fields are public or not.

Also adjust spi.sgml's documentation of the struct to match.
That doc had bit-rotted somewhat, as it was missing some fields.
(Arguably we should just remove all the private fields from the docs,
but for now I refrained.)

Daniel Gustafsson, reviewed by Fabien Coelho

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/0D19F836-B743-4340-B6A2-F148CA3DD1F0@yesql.se
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Tom Lane 2019-07-17 14:55:13 -04:00
parent 860c095fd5
commit fec0778c80
2 changed files with 18 additions and 10 deletions

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@ -318,21 +318,26 @@ SPI_execute("INSERT INTO foo SELECT * FROM bar RETURNING *", false, 5);
The structure <structname>SPITupleTable</structname> is defined
thus:
<programlisting>
typedef struct
typedef struct SPITupleTable
{
/* Public members */
TupleDesc tupdesc; /* tuple descriptor */
HeapTuple *vals; /* array of tuples */
/* Private members, not intended for external callers */
MemoryContext tuptabcxt; /* memory context of result table */
uint64 alloced; /* number of alloced vals */
uint64 free; /* number of free vals */
TupleDesc tupdesc; /* row descriptor */
HeapTuple *vals; /* rows */
uint64 alloced; /* # of alloced vals */
uint64 free; /* # of free vals */
slist_node next; /* link for internal bookkeeping */
SubTransactionId subid; /* subxact in which tuptable was created */
} SPITupleTable;
</programlisting>
<structfield>vals</structfield> and <structfield>tupdesc</structfield> can
be used by SPI callers, the remaining fields are internal.
<structfield>vals</structfield> is an array of pointers to rows. (The number
of valid entries is given by <varname>SPI_processed</varname>.)
<structfield>tupdesc</structfield> is a row descriptor which you can pass to
SPI functions dealing with rows. <structfield>tuptabcxt</structfield>,
<structfield>alloced</structfield>, and <structfield>free</structfield> are internal
fields not intended for use by SPI callers.
SPI functions dealing with rows.
</para>
<para>

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@ -21,11 +21,14 @@
typedef struct SPITupleTable
{
/* Public members */
TupleDesc tupdesc; /* tuple descriptor */
HeapTuple *vals; /* array of tuples */
/* Private members, not intended for external callers */
MemoryContext tuptabcxt; /* memory context of result table */
uint64 alloced; /* # of alloced vals */
uint64 free; /* # of free vals */
TupleDesc tupdesc; /* tuple descriptor */
HeapTuple *vals; /* tuples */
slist_node next; /* link for internal bookkeeping */
SubTransactionId subid; /* subxact in which tuptable was created */
} SPITupleTable;