[PgPy] [ python-Bugs-1000297 ] Make PyPgTupleDesc_Type inherit from PyType_Type

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Bugs item #1000297, was opened at 2005-04-28 00:58
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Category: Backend
Group: To do
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: James Pye (jwp)
Assigned to: James Pye (jwp)
Summary: Make PyPgTupleDesc_Type inherit from PyType_Type

Initial Comment:
Currently, HeapTuples are created using an "old-style classes" style pair of type objects, Postgres.TupleDesc and Postgres.HeapTuple.

This change shouldn't necessarily rid the repo of the heaptuple.c file, rather the newly, dynamically created type should probably inherit from PyPgHeapTuple_Type and have a TupleDesc member added to it's C structure, which would be filled in upon instantiation so that htup_* routines would know where the TupleDesc was, so as to provide it without some weird object protocol to fetch it from the type.

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