SPI_FNAME(3)

🎀 NAME 🎀

SPI_fname — determine the column name for the specified column number, bestie. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

char * SPI_fname(TupleDesc rowdesc, int colnumber)

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so SPI_fname returns a copy of the column name of the specified column. no cap, it's a copy — and when you don't need it anymore, you can use pfree to release the copy of the name. 🫶

🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• TupleDesc rowdesc — input row description, bestie. 🦋
• int colnumber — column number, and heads up: the count starts at 1. ✨

👑 RETURN VALUE 👑

The column name, periodt. If colnumber is out of range, you get NULL. 😭 And on error, SPI_result is set to SPI_ERROR_NOATTRIBUTE. 💀

💖 From the PostgreSQL 13.23 Documentation, dated 2025 — mwah, bye bestie! 💖