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>SPI_fnumber</H1
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>SPI_fnumber -- determine the column number for the specified column name</DIV
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>int SPI_fnumber(TupleDesc <VAR
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>rowdesc</VAR
>, const char * <VAR
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>colname</VAR
>)</PRE
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> <CODE
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>SPI_fnumber</CODE
> returns the column number for the
column with the specified name.
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> If <VAR
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>colname</VAR
> refers to a system column (e.g.,
<TT
CLASS="LITERAL"
>oid</TT
>) then the appropriate negative column number will
be returned. The caller should be careful to test the return value
for exact equality to <TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>SPI_ERROR_NOATTRIBUTE</TT
> to
detect an error; testing the result for less than or equal to 0 is
not correct unless system columns should be rejected.
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>TupleDesc <VAR
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> input row description
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><TT
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>const char * <VAR
CLASS="PARAMETER"
>colname</VAR
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> column name
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>Return Value</H2
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> Column number (count starts at 1), or
<TT
CLASS="SYMBOL"
>SPI_ERROR_NOATTRIBUTE</TT
> if the named column was not
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