Excerpts from Pavel Stehule's message of sáb ene 29 16:56:40 -0300 2011:
> 2011/1/29 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
> > The less crocky way to do that is to use SPI_palloc() for something that
> > should be allocated in the outer context.
>
> I understand. Is there some way, where I can use a cstring_to_text
> function? There isn't simple way to get a saveCtx.
>
> some like SPI_copyDatum ... ?
I wrote such a patch some time ago but never applied it ...
http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/20091116162531.GA3669@alvh.no-ip.org
I still wonder if it's useful enough to be applied. Would it solve your
use case?
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