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From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: getting type name
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Msg-id 20060709184953.GA64380@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to getting type name  (Tzahi Fadida <Tzahi.ML@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: getting type name  (Tzahi Fadida <Tzahi.ML@gmail.com>)
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On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 09:03:21PM +0300, Tzahi Fadida wrote:
> How do i get a char * type from a type Oid. i.e. getStringTypeFromOid(INT4OID) 
> will return "int4".

Server-side or client-side?  In the backend I think you could use
format_type_be() or format_type_with_typemod(), both declared in
utils/builtins.h and defined in src/backend/utils/adt/format_type.c.

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Michael Fuhr

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