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Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Field types (was Re: Return value of int)
In-Reply-To: <28299.925775671@sss.pgh.pa.us> from Tom Lane at "May 3,
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From: "D'Arcy" "J.M." Cain <darcy@druid.net>
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Thus spake Tom Lane
> 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?

Exactly.

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