Garfield Lewis <garfield.le...@lzlabs.com> writes:
> In my client-side C code I am using PQgetvalue to pull in the data from the
> row/column. However, since it is a composite type, it is unclear to me how to
> get the individual members from the data.
Binary representations are not too well documented :-(. However,
looking at record_send() helps here.
> My best guess right now is:
> * 0x2 is the number of members
> * 0x4 and 0x143 are the lengths of the individual members
> * 0x17 and 0x8e are the OID for the member type
Right, with the additional proviso that -1 "length" indicates a null
field value.
regards, tom lane
