Don't crash if cursor_to_xmlschema is used on a non-data-returning Portal.
commite6e50ada07bbbbea2a68597d0bf7f795b0dc1269
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:27:47 +0000 (18 14:27 -0400)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:27:47 +0000 (18 14:27 -0400)
tree288aae6cffad64391ea74290aaa2574460b17669
parentc5b7f791dab95ca14122f7bc09cc729fcaf7e25c
Don't crash if cursor_to_xmlschema is used on a non-data-returning Portal.

cursor_to_xmlschema() assumed that any Portal must have a tupDesc,
which is not so.  Add a defensive check.

It's plausible that this mistake occurred because of the rather
poorly chosen name of the lookup function SPI_cursor_find(),
which in such cases is returning something that isn't very much
like a cursor.  Add some documentation to try to forestall future
errors of the same ilk.

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Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dd343010-c637-434c-a8cb-418f53bda3b8.yangboyu.yby@alibaba-inc.com
doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml
src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c