Thus spake Glenn Sullivan
> The value I get returned from PQftype() for a varchar is 1043
> and for an int is 23.
> I am uncomfortable just testing for these values. I could
> not find in the documentation, what the return values of
> PQftype() are. Can anyone point me to that information?
Here's a Python script to generate #defines for a C header. I'm sure
you can figure out how to convert it for your needs.
#! /usr/local/bin/python
import string
# change this if you have it somewhere else
for l in open("/usr/local/pgsql/src/include/catalog/pg_type.h").readlines():
tokens = string.split(l)
if len(tokens) == 0 or tokens[0] != "#define": continue
if tokens[1] in ('CASHOID', 'INT2OID', 'INT4OID', 'OIDOID', 'FLOAT4OID', 'FLOAT8OID'):
print l,
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