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To: hglawson@nr.infi.net
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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Field types (was Re: Return value of int) 
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 3 May 1999 17:45:21 -0400 (EDT)
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Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 19:54:31 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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