Jeremy Drake <pgsql@jdrake.com> writes:
> BTW, should I be calling
> get_typlenbyvalalign on TEXTOID or are there macros for those also?
By and large we tend to hard-wire those properties too, eg there are
plenty of places that do things like this:
/* XXX: this hardcodes assumptions about the regtype type */
result = construct_array(tmp_ary, num_params, REGTYPEOID, 4, true, 'i');
Some are better commented than others ...
regards, tom lane