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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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Subject: Re: Get CTID from within an OUTPUT/SEND function
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Garfield Lewis <garfield.lewis@lzlabs.com> writes:
> I would like to know if it is possible to get the CTID from within
> the OUTPUT and SEND functions of a CREATE TYPE?

No.  A datatype output function has no reason to expect that the value
it's handed has ever been in a table at all.

			regards, tom lane