Re: Determining the type of an obkect in plperl

From: stan <stanb(at)panix(dot)com>
To: Ravi Krishna <srkrishna(at)gmx(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Determining the type of an obkect in plperl
Date: 2020-03-05 11:03:47
Message-ID: 20200305110347.GB2832@panix.com
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On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 12:27:12AM +0000, Ravi Krishna wrote:
>
> >
> > how can I determine what the data type of the value element is?
> >
> perl has a ref function which can tell what type of object.
>
> https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/ref.html
> >
>
>

That was my goto answer, but see this in the docs:

If the operand is not a reference, then the empty string will be returned.

So after I assign this to a variable this function does not help. I may
need to try using this against the actual _TD... hash

Thanks.

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