Re: [HACKERS] INT2OID, etc.

Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> I will say that pg_dump does use it, but it is not really a 3rd party
> library.

Maybe everything in src/interfaces should be considered the same way.

> I recommend you use the file, and make them supply the pgsql source
> directory as part of the compile, that way, you can access the files you
> need directly.  You can do a lookup in pg_type for the names of the
> types you want.  Maybe you can even write a little psql script to
> extract the oid's you need from pg_type, convert the output to #defines,
> and #include that in your compile.

That's a thought.  I just pulled the defines I needed out with many
comments about what a bad boy I was for doing that.  I'll look at
something like that.

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