I saw the following item in the TODO list

Functions:

* Add SPI_gettypmod() to return the typemod for a TupleDesc

What is the purpose of adding this function?

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Dhanaraj M wrote:
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It allows SPI functions to query the Tuple's typemod values, rather than
groveling through the structure. I am not sure how that would be done.


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