Re: [INTERFACES] Field types (was Re: Return value of int)

On Mon, 3 May 1999, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:

> Thus spake Tom Lane
> > 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?
>
> Exactly.

Uhhh, <cringe>, <blush>, thanks for the patient education. Boy did I
ever miss the point! Programming this is over my head right now, so
I'm saving these msgs.

Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, North Carolina
hglawson(at)nr(dot)infi(dot)net