Don't crash if cursor_to_xmlschema is used on a non-data-returning Portal.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 1233370791fe12f7d9f7cb8b994cab70012bd961
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2023-09-18T18:27:47Z
Releases: 12.17
Don't crash if cursor_to_xmlschema is used on a non-data-returning Portal.

cursor_to_xmlschema() assumed that any Portal must have a tupDesc,
which is not so.  Add a defensive check.

It's plausible that this mistake occurred because of the rather
poorly chosen name of the lookup function SPI_cursor_find(),
which in such cases is returning something that isn't very much
like a cursor.  Add some documentation to try to forestall future
errors of the same ilk.

Report and patch by Boyu Yang (docs changes by me).  Back-patch
to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/dd343010-c637-434c-a8cb-418f53bda3b8.yangboyu.yby@alibaba-inc.com

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doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml modified +13 −0
src/backend/utils/adt/xml.c modified +4 −0

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