# SPI_fnumber
SPI_fnumber — determine the column number for the specified column name
# Synopsis
int SPI_fnumber(TupleDesc rowdesc, const char * colname)
# Description
SPI_fnumber
returns the column number for the column with the specified name.
If colname
refers to a system column (e.g., ctid
) then the appropriate negative column number will be returned. The caller should be careful to test the return value for exact equality to SPI_ERROR_NOATTRIBUTE
to detect an error; testing the result for less than or equal to 0 is not correct unless system columns should be rejected.
# Arguments
TupleDesc *
rowdesc*
input row description
const char * *
colname*
column name
# Return Value
Column number (count starts at 1 for user-defined columns), or SPI_ERROR_NOATTRIBUTE
if the named column was not found.