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From Vignesh Raghunathan
Subject Parsing tuple contents
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Msg-id CAD_AmVig1_fpnu-t_dU97fTSQzW-55WZkQtJPLTyN17L31n2Gw@mail.gmail.com
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Responses Re: Parsing tuple contents  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hello,

I am working on a project which requires going through each field inside a tuple without using postgresql. I have managed to iterate through each tuple inside a table by recycling postgres's code. However, for the part of parsing through each field in the tuple, I am not able to think of anything other than using a bunch of if/else or switch case statements to handle each postgresql datatype. I looked through postgresql's code base but I am unable to identify the part of code that might do this. Could anyone please let me know where to look?

Thanks,
Vignesh     

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