From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: hglawson@nr.infi.net
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Field types (was Re: Return value of int)
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 19:54:31 -0400
Message-ID: <28299.925775671@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905031742110.745-100000@cumquat.fruit.com>
Hugh Lawson <hglawson@nr.infi.net> writes:
> I'm just getting started on fiddling with libpq. I am wondering why
> this passage from man libpq doesn't address this issue? I'm not being
> a smarty here, I just don't know the answer.
> PQftype returns the field type associated with the
> given field index. The integer returned is an
> internal coding of the type.
Unless I missed what D'Arcy was getting at, his point was that when
PQftype tells you the field type is, say, 23, how do you know what
that means?
regards, tom lane
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