a wrote: > Hi I am writing something that would need to identify the attribute category inside a C function, > now I may need a way of fast access it, but the information is not stored in FormData_pg_attribute structure. Are you talking about pg_type.typcategory? That is accessible from FormData_pg_type. You'd have to look up atttypid in the TYPEOID cache. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Cybertec | https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com