Re: [HACKERS] Types

Michael Meskes wrote: >libpq gives back the internal typenumbers of the attributes. How do I know >which number means
whichtype? I need to find out if the type is an array.
 

If the type is 1007, then:

template1=> select typname from pg_type where oid = 1007;
typname
-------
_int4  
(1 row)

If the typename begins with an underscore, it is an array type.

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