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From Gerald Britton
Subject Re: Determine actual type of a pseudo-type argument
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In response to Re: Determine actual type of a pseudo-type argument  (Steve Baldwin <steve.baldwin@gmail.com>)
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E.g. anyelement, anyenum, anyarray are in a table of pseudo types in the official docs.

I'll try pg_typeof...looks like a possibility.

On Sun, Jan 5, 2020, 5:37 PM Steve Baldwin <steve.baldwin@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by pseudo-type, but does the pg_typeof() function help?

Steve

On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 9:34 AM Gerald Britton <gerald.britton@gmail.com> wrote:
If I use a pseudo-type in the argument list of a function definition (SQL or plpgsql), how can I determine the actual type used a runtime?

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