David E. Wheeler escribió: > Well, as someone who was until recently unfamiliar with regtypes, and > who thinks of an OID as essentially just a number, I would find it very > useful if the description indicated that, as a regtype, the return value > could be used as either an OID or as string. Otherwise, I'd find the > description kind of confusing (in one place it says it returns a regtype, > "whatever *that* is", and in one place it says an OID).
Give this a read http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/datatype-oid.html Maybe we should link to this page in the pg_typeof() description. Also, perhaps this page needs more examples. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
