Re: libpq and referencing data type OIDs - Mailing list pgsql-interfaces

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: libpq and referencing data type OIDs
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Msg-id 20050405033933.GA21612@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to libpq and referencing data type OIDs  (Marvin Bellamy <marvin.bellamy@innovision.com>)
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On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 03:58:12PM -0500, Marvin Bellamy wrote:
>
> I want to use postgres' datatype OID definitions and not use the literal 
> Oid int values (I'm feeding them into PQexecParams()).  But, it looks 
> like these values are defined in a header not included by libpq-fe.h.  
> When I try importing catalog/pg_type.h, I get a slew of missing data 
> type errors.  So, what's the appropriate way to reference OID data types?

Including postgres.h before catalog/pg_type.h should work.  I'm not
sure how appropriate it is for clients to include backend headers,
but it's worked when I've done it.

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Michael Fuhr
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