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.
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