<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >SPI_copytupledesc</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REV="MADE" HREF="mailto:pgsql-docs@postgresql.org"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PostgreSQL 7.4.1 Documentation" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Memory Management" HREF="spi-memory.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="SPI_copytuple" HREF="spi-spi-copytuple.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="SPI_copytupleintoslot" HREF="spi-spi-copytupleintoslot.html"><LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="stylesheet.css"><META NAME="creation" CONTENT="2003-12-22T03:48:47"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="REFENTRY" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="5" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >PostgreSQL 7.4.1 Documentation</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="spi-spi-copytuple.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="spi-spi-copytuple.html" >Fast Backward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="60%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="spi-spi-copytupleintoslot.html" >Fast Forward</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="spi-spi-copytupleintoslot.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="SPI-SPI-COPYTUPLEDESC" ></A >SPI_copytupledesc</H1 ><DIV CLASS="REFNAMEDIV" ><A NAME="AEN34259" ></A ><H2 >Name</H2 >SPI_copytupledesc -- make a copy of a row descriptor in the upper executor context</DIV ><A NAME="AEN34262" ></A ><DIV CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV" ><A NAME="AEN34264" ></A ><H2 >Synopsis</H2 ><PRE CLASS="SYNOPSIS" >TupleDesc SPI_copytupledesc(TupleDesc <VAR CLASS="PARAMETER" >tupdesc</VAR >)</PRE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN34267" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 ><P > <CODE CLASS="FUNCTION" >SPI_copytupledesc</CODE > makes a copy of a row descriptor in the upper executor context. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN34271" ></A ><H2 >Arguments</H2 ><P ></P ><DIV CLASS="VARIABLELIST" ><DL ><DT ><TT CLASS="LITERAL" >TupleDesc <VAR CLASS="PARAMETER" >tupdesc</VAR ></TT ></DT ><DD ><P > row descriptor to be copied </P ></DD ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REFSECT1" ><A NAME="AEN34280" ></A ><H2 >Return Value</H2 ><P > the copied row descriptor; <TT CLASS="SYMBOL" >NULL</TT > only if <VAR CLASS="PARAMETER" >tupdesc</VAR > is <TT CLASS="SYMBOL" >NULL</TT > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="spi-spi-copytuple.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="spi-spi-copytupleintoslot.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >SPI_copytuple</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="spi-memory.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >SPI_copytupleintoslot</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >