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The mi_type_typename() function obtains the name of a data type from its type descriptor.

mi_string *mi_type_typename(type_desc)

MI_TYPE_DESC *type_desc;

type_desc

is a pointer to the type descriptor from which mi_type_typename() obtains the name.

Valid in Client LIBMI Application?	Valid in User-Defined Routine?
Yes	Yes

The mi_type_typename() function obtains the data type name from the type descriptor that type_desc references. For extended data types, the name is the value of the name column of the sysxtdtypes system catalog table.

See the descriptions of the following functions: mi_type_align(), mi_type_byvalue(), mi_type_element_typedesc(), mi_type_full_name(), mi_type_length(), mi_type_maxlength(), mi_type_owner(), mi_type_precision(), mi_type_qualifier(), mi_type_scale(), mi_type_typedesc(), and mi_typedesc_typeid().