Re: PQftype(copy_rset) returns zero OIDs??? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: PQftype(copy_rset) returns zero OIDs???
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Msg-id 2127876.1709053919@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to PQftype(copy_rset) returns zero OIDs???  (Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: PQftype(copy_rset) returns zero OIDs???
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Dominique Devienne <ddevienne@gmail.com> writes:
> For the first time, I'm checking the OIDs returned
> (via the result set's PQftype API), by "regular" SELECT:
> ...
> And to my surprise, they are not!
> The ones from the COPY are all zeros.

> Is that normal?

The CopyInResponse and CopyOutResponse messages don't carry any
column name or type indications, so yes it's normal.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/protocol-message-formats.html

Maybe we missed a bet there, but AFAIR you are the first person to
ask for this in twenty-plus years.

            regards, tom lane



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