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From: Joe Conway <mail@joeconway.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Type OIDs
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:18:22 -0700
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:
>> Can I embed the types I'm interested in into my program, or should I
>> query the server at least once per connection to get the mapping?  I'm
>> interested in types such as INTEGER, TEXT, BYTEA, etc.  No user
>> defined types, and nothing fancy.  Ultra-long-term portability isn't
>> required, either.
> 
> Well, the type OIDs of the standard built-in types haven't changed in
> at least ten years, but that doesn't mean we won't change 'em in the
> future.  I'd advise at least using the #define's from pg_type.h rather
> than writing actual numeric constants.

I'll second that. It's exactly what I've been doing in PL/R for several 
years now.

Joe

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