From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Graham Wilson <grahamwilsonca@yahoo.ca>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Determining C type for a given OID
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 18:34:07 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200211292334.gATNY7T14241@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021129231832.61196.qmail@web14403.mail.yahoo.com>
Graham Wilson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm using the libpq `PQgetvalue` function to get
> specific results from my datase. Many of these
> results are numeric types. Is there an internal
> function in libpq that will convert the returned
> string to an appropriate C-type based on the oid
> values in src/include/catalog/pg_type.h?
Well, in most queries, the returned value is a C string that you have
to convert in the client. I think ecpg handles such conversions
natively so you don't have to worry about them, and most of the
scripting languages handle a C string numeric value just like any other
value (they don't have data types). It would be great if we could
assign it right to a double, but you can't.
You can make such assignments of float4 to float and float8 to double if
you use a binary cursor _and_ your client and server have the same
internal representation for such values. However, NUMERIC is stored
internally a binary-coded decimal-like format that isn't going to make
any sense to your client code at all.
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