Garfield Lewis <garfield.lewis@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I am trying to pass an array into a new function I am creating called lzxmlexists via the following statement: > wdbs=# SELECT "XT"."ROWKEY" , "XT"."XMLT1C1" FROM "LZQAAS"."T642_XML_T1" "XT" WHERE "ROWKEY"=64201 AND lzxmlexists( ' $XTX//DeptName[ . = $Dn ]', 'DEFAULT', ARRAY["XT"."XMLT1C1"] ) ORDER BY "ROWKEY"; > The column XT.XMLT1C1 exists because I can do a simple select to see the contents. The problem is that in the code above I hit the following error at line 161. > 160 for ( size_t ix = 0; ix < iXmlCount; ++ix ) { > (gdb) > 163 xmltype *pX = DatumGetXmlP( pXmlData[ix] ); > (gdb) > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x00000000008b3514 in pg_detoast_datum () The most obvious theory is that there are some nulls in the XT.XMLT1C1 column. Since your code isn't bothering to check pXmlDataNulls[ix], it would hit a null-pointer dereference when accessing pXmlData[ix]. regards, tom lane