"Nate Sommer" <sommena(at)earlham(dot)edu> 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) more easily
than with specific tuples. What exactly is your context here?
regards, tom lane