Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> wrote:
>> This doesn't strike me as very good advice. Those things are not exposed
>> generally for good reason. The right way to do this surely is to have the
>> app look up and cache the OIDs it needs rather than hardcode the values in
>> the application.
> Note he didn't provide reasons why he is asking for this power. Your
> assertion is a coded variant of "don't use the binary protocol" which
> I happen to think is not very good advice IF you know what you're
> doing.
Say what? He didn't say that, he said "don't assume that user-defined
types have hard-wired OIDs".
regards, tom lane