Re: [HACKERS] tuple descriptors?

2002-12-09 Thread Tom Lane
Philip Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 01:56 AM 10/12/2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> but I'm sure Glenn would be pleased to send 'em to >> you on request. > Do you have an email address - the O'Reilly site also seems not to have one... Hrm, you're right. I think there was one in the hard

Re: [HACKERS] tuple descriptors?

2002-12-09 Thread Philip Warner
At 01:56 AM 10/12/2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: but I'm sure Glenn would be pleased to send 'em to you on request. I've found a link: http://www.delphis.com/java/java.html Philip Warner| __---_ Alb

Re: [HACKERS] tuple descriptors?

2002-12-09 Thread Philip Warner
At 01:56 AM 10/12/2002 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: but I'm sure Glenn would be pleased to send 'em to you on request. Do you have an email address - the O'Reilly site also seems not to have one... Philip Warner|

Re: [HACKERS] tuple descriptors?

2002-12-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Nate Sommer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a student taking a database systems course, and as a project option I > chose to work on one of PostgreSQL's todo list items, namely "auto-delete > large objects when referencing row is deleted." The main point of the > project is to become more comf

Re: [HACKERS] tuple descriptors?

2002-12-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Nate Sommer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Tupledescs are generally associated with tables (relations) more easily >> than with specific tuples. What exactly is your context here? > What I'd like to do is add some code to the heap_delete function that > checks the tuple being deleted for oids,

Re: [HACKERS] tuple descriptors?

2002-12-09 Thread Nate Sommer
> > Can anyone tell me how to get a tuple's TupleDesc if all that is known is t= > > he tid? Or is there an easy way to step through a tuple, retrieving the da= > > ta and data type from each field? > > Tupledescs are generally associated with tables (relations) more easily > than with specific tu

Re: [HACKERS] tuple descriptors?

2002-12-09 Thread Tom Lane
"Nate Sommer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can anyone tell me how to get a tuple's TupleDesc if all that is known is t= > he tid? Or is there an easy way to step through a tuple, retrieving the da= > ta and data type from each field? Tupledescs are generally associated with tables (relations) mo