[HACKERS] Mysterious Bus Error with get_fn_expr_argtype()

[David E. Wheeler]

Howdy,

I'm trying to write a simple function that will return a string with  
the type name of a value. Unfortunately, it keeps dying on me. I don't  
even get any useful debugging information with --enable-cassert, just  
this:

LOG:  server process (PID 96946) was terminated by signal 10: Bus error
LOG:  terminating any other active server processes
LOG:  all server processes terminated; reinitializing

I stuck in a few calls to elog(), and it looks like this is the line  
that's choking:

    typeoid = get_fn_expr_argtype(fcinfo->flinfo, 0);

But that's copied directly from enum.c. So I'm pretty mystified. Any  
help would be greatly appreciated.

Here's the complete code:

#include "postgres.h"
#include "fmgr.h"
#include "utils/builtins.h"

#ifdef PG_MODULE_MAGIC
PG_MODULE_MAGIC;
#endif

extern Datum type_of (PG_FUNCTION_ARGS);

Datum
type_of(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{
    Oid    typeoid;
    Datum  result;
    char   *typename;

    typeoid = get_fn_expr_argtype(fcinfo->flinfo, 0);
    if (typeoid == InvalidOid) {
        ereport(
            ERROR, (
                errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED),
                errmsg("could not determine data type of argument to  
type_of()")
            )
        );
    }

    typename = format_type_be(typeoid);
    result = DirectFunctionCall1(textin, CStringGetDatum(typename));
        PG_RETURN_DATUM(result);
}

And I load the function like so:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION type_of(anyelement)
RETURNS text
AS '$libdir/type_of'
LANGUAGE C STRICT IMMUTABLE;

Thanks,

DAvid


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