| From: | "D'Arcy" "J(dot)M(dot)" Cain <darcy(at)druid(dot)net> |
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| To: | tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane) |
| Cc: | pgsql-interfaces(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [INTERFACES] Field types (was Re: Return value of int) |
| Date: | 1999-05-04 02:37:25 |
| Message-ID: | m10eV5K-0000bIC@druid.net |
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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.
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