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@nr.infi.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@nr.infi.net