From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Field types (was Re: Return value of int)
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 18:36:41 -0400
Message-ID: <16187.925684601@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m10e211-0000bIC@druid.net>
"D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net> writes:
> Regarding this, it would be nice if libpq had some official, documented
> way of determining the type of the field. Currently I deal with this
> in PyGreSQL by stealing some #defines from src/include/catalog/pg_type.h,
> something that isn't normally available to application programmers.
Well, I don't see a big problem with stealing the defines --- the odds
of the OID for INT4, say, ever changing are pretty low.
But of course the "official, documented" way to find out what a given
type OID means is
SELECT typname FROM pg_type WHERE oid = <whatever>;
If you kept a cache of type info on the application side, you could
probably even make this fast enough to be a reasonable approach :-)
regards, tom lane
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