Re: How to retrieve values of 'array' field using C library (libpq)

Hey Anton,

2011/2/9 Anton Maksimenkov <anton200(at)gmail(dot)com>

> Hi.
>
> I use libpq in my program. And I can retrieve int and symbolic fields
> as simple as
>
>
> int unameFN, moneyFN...
> char *unamePTR, *moneyPTR...
>
> unameFN = PQfnumber(res, "uname");
> moneyFN = PQfnumber(res, "money");
> unamePTR = PQgetvalue(res, 0, unameFN);
> moneyPTR = PQgetvalue(res, 0, moneyFN);
> themoney = ntohl(*((uint32_t *) moneyPTR));
> printf("user->[uname:%s money:%d]", unamePTR, themoney);
>
>
> Then I tried to use array type and no success:
>
> int arFN...
> char *arPTR...
>
> arN = PQfnumber(res, "woo");
> arPTR = PQgetvalue(res, 0, arFN);
> printf("user->[woo:%s]", arPTR);
>
> I can convert it with array_to_string() and got it as some text.
>
> My array is the array of integer values. So maybe there is some native
> method to retrieve them (as in the 'themoney' example)?
>
Not in libpq. Probably, in libpqtypes.

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