Re: tuple descriptors? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: tuple descriptors?
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Msg-id 22740.1039494007@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to tuple descriptors?  ("Nate Sommer" <sommena@earlham.edu>)
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"Nate Sommer" <sommena@earlham.edu> writes:
> Can anyone tell me how to get a tuple's TupleDesc if all that is known is t=
> he tid?  Or is there an easy way to step through a tuple, retrieving the da=
> ta and data type from each field?

Tupledescs are generally associated with tables (relations) more easily
than with specific tuples.  What exactly is your context here?
        regards, tom lane


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