Re: BUG #2395: Can't get right type oid by PQftype. - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: BUG #2395: Can't get right type oid by PQftype.
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Msg-id 18521.1145117947@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: BUG #2395: Can't get right type oid by PQftype.  (Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr>)
Responses Re: BUG #2395: Can't get right type oid by PQftype.
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Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo@ttnet.net.tr> writes:
> On Apr 14 06:30, wangshj wrote:
>> In my database,the type oid of testdomainoid is 16385. But PQftype return 23
>> for testdomainoid's type oid.

> PQftype() returns the OID of the actual _type_ used in the domain.
> Therefore, you get 23, OID of the int4/int type, in the above query.

Yeah, this is considered a feature not a bug.  In fact the original
implementation just returned the domain's OID, and that was objected
to because most client programs wouldn't recognize it.

            regards, tom lane

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