Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>
>> What is the approved way to iterate over a relation's attributes?
>>
>
> Most places scan through the relation's tuple descriptor, rather
> than expending multiple catalog lookups in pg_attribute.
>
>
>
Doesn't that require me to open the relation? Is that a good thing if I
wouldn't otherwise be doing that?
This is in the context of making CheckAttributeType recurse into
composite types.
cheers
andrew
