Hi all,
for an API I want to make some changes to, I need to know the datatype being used for a record's column. In fact the
entirerecord is to be transferred into a dictionary. From my web research I came to use
select oid, typname from pg_type
to find out what datatypes exist. When checking on a certain field, it returned 17 as a type, thus being a bytea.
That'sactually the question now, because, is it always that bytea gets oid 17 or are these assignments of type name and
oiddependent on the database installation, version of pg or whatever else I might be missing? I would prefer to
hardcodehow these numbers are interpreted for performance reasons, so even if they do depend on other criteria, my next
questionwould be how often throughout pg-history did they change, if they do not depend on the individual installation.
Thank you in advance for clarifying.
Alex
