Re: Macros for typtype (was Re: Arrays of Complex Types)

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>>> I just realized that I need to check every usage of typtype to be
>>> sure that the enums patch is sane.  So, barring objection, I intend
>>> to take this opportunity to make the code stop referring directly
>>> to 'b', 'c' etc whereever possible.  Any objections to these names?

> Why not enums? ;-)

Well, macros is how we do it elsewhere for "char" system columns.
I'm not sure we could rely on the behavior if we declared
pg_type.typtype as an enum type ... and if we don't, there's not
much point.

			regards, tom lane