Re: pg_typeof() patch review

David E. Wheeler escribió:

> Well, as someone who was until recently unfamiliar with regtypes, and  
> who thinks of an OID as essentially just a number, I would find it very 
> useful if the description indicated that, as a regtype, the return value 
> could be used as either an OID or as string. Otherwise, I'd find the 
> description kind of confusing (in one place it says it returns a regtype, 
> "whatever *that* is", and in one place it says an OID).

Give this a read
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/datatype-oid.html

Maybe we should link to this page in the pg_typeof() description.  Also,
perhaps this page needs more examples.

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