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 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general