Re: Determining the type of an obkect in plperl - Mailing list pgsql-general

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 12:27:12AM +0000, Ravi Krishna wrote:
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> > 
> > how can I determine what the data type of the value element is?
> > 
> perl has a ref function which can tell what type of object.
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> https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/ref.html
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That was my goto answer, but see this in the docs:

If the operand is not a reference, then the empty string will be returned. 

So after I assign this to a variable this function does not help. I may
need to try using this against the actual _TD... hash

Thanks.

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