Hugh Lawson <hglawson(at)nr(dot)infi(dot)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?
regards, tom lane