Re: Determine actual type of a pseudo-type argument

From: Gerald Britton <gerald(dot)britton(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Steve Baldwin <steve(dot)baldwin(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Determine actual type of a pseudo-type argument
Date: 2020-01-05 22:54:13
Message-ID: CAPxRSnZTwqp-nR38SYaty0DQjFaT1b_cB4hWzQLDvjppzH90SQ@mail.gmail.com
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E.g. anyelement, anyenum, anyarray are in a table of pseudo types in the
official docs.

I'll try pg_typeof...looks like a possibility.

On Sun, Jan 5, 2020, 5:37 PM Steve Baldwin <steve(dot)baldwin(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> I'm not sure what you mean by pseudo-type, but does the pg_typeof()
> function help?
>
> Steve
>
> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 9:34 AM Gerald Britton <gerald(dot)britton(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> If I use a pseudo-type in the argument list of a function definition (SQL
>> or plpgsql), how can I determine the actual type used a runtime?
>>
>> --
>> Gerald Britton, MCSE-DP, MVP
>> LinkedIn Profile: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/geraldbritton
>>
>

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