On Sep 2, 2008, at 08:58, David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2008, at 22:31, Brendan Jurd wrote:
>
>>> Oh, another thing: it shouldn't be STRICT. Nulls have perfectly
>>> good
>>> types.
>>
>> Agreed.
>>
>> Barring any further comments/objections, I'll go ahead and prepare a
>> patch to add this to core.
>
> So it will return a text representation or an Oid?
Looks like regtype displays as an integer. So how about pg_regtypeof()
and pg_typeof()?
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(pg_regtypeof);
Datum
pg_regtypeof(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{ PG_RETURN_OID(get_fn_expr_argtype(fcinfo->flinfo, 0));
}
PG_FUNCTION_INFO_V1(pg_typeof);
Datum
pg_typeof(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)
{ Oid typeoid;
typeoid = get_fn_expr_argtype(fcinfo->flinfo, 0); if (typeoid == InvalidOid) { ereport( ERROR,
( errcode(ERRCODE_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED), errmsg("could not determine data type of
argumentto
pg_typeof()") ) ); }
PG_RETURN_DATUM(CStringGetDatum(format_type_be(typeoid)));
}
Best,
David