From: "D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net>
To: tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgreSQL.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] [libpq] Return value of int
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 15:35:03 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <m10e211-0000bIC@druid.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13408.925661516@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Thus spake Tom Lane
> Henk Jan Barendregt <henkjan@barendregt.xs4all.nl> writes:
> > How can i use libpq to return an int value when i access an INT or INT4
> > value
>
> Use atoi() ... what comes out of libpq is a character string always.
> It's up to you to convert it to whatever form you want it in.
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. In
fact, maybe we just have to move those #defines into postgres.h or
something that is in the public include directory.
Just thinking out loud.
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