Re: Determining the type of an obkect in plperl

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 12:27:12AM +0000, Ravi Krishna wrote:
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> > how can I determine what the data type of the value element is?
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> perl has a ref function which can tell what type of object.
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> https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/ref.html
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Even checking gisnt teh _TD structure does not return a value:

foreach my $key (sort keys %{$_TD->{old}}) {
my $ref1 = ref $_TD->{old}->{$key};
my $ref2 = ref $_TD->{new}->{$key};
elog(NOTICE, "ref1 = $ref1 ref2 = $ref2" );
.
.
.

Results in the following output:

NOTICE: ref1 = ref2 =

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