Garfield Lewis <garfield.lewis@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > In my client-side C code I am using PQgetvalue to pull in the data from the row/column. However, since it is a composite type, it is unclear to me how to get the individual members from the data. Binary representations are not too well documented :-(. However, looking at record_send() helps here. > My best guess right now is: > * 0x2 is the number of members > * 0x4 and 0x143 are the lengths of the individual members > * 0x17 and 0x8e are the OID for the member type Right, with the additional proviso that -1 "length" indicates a null field value. regards, tom lane