what problem was I seeing? it kept returning false for all strings passed to it, even those which were content types... as defined in the plpgsql func as: if the string is the name of a type derived from content_revision or is itself content revision, should be true.
But you showed me that in a later version I don't have, it's fixed. What is still not fixed (during this hour anyway) is the call on line 221 of packages/acs-tcl/tcl/application-data-link-procs.tcl and it's the only core use of is_content_type().
Anyway thanks for showing me the cvs...
-Jim