Carsten Kropf <ckro...@fh-hof.de> writes:
> basically I looked inside these functions in parse_type.c and did not find an
> "easy to use" application here. So I considered trying to construct the
> required arguments passed to typenameType. However, during the development, I
> found the following function:
> Oid
> TypenameGetTypid(const char *typname)
> which does indeed do the lookup of my particular type in the cache and system
> catalog tables. Thanks a lot for the hint!
Actually, parseTypeString() is what I was thinking of. TypenameGetTypid
won't cope with schema-qualified names, nor a lot of other cases.
regards, tom lane
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