Nicolas Barbier <nicolas.barb...@gmail.com> writes:
> 2011/1/16 Simone Aiken <sai...@ulfheim.net>:
>>        ... So even though the documentation says that column
>>        maps to pg_proc.oid I can't then write:
>>                Select * from pg_proc where oid = 'boolout';

> Type type of typoutput is "regproc", which is really an oid with a
> different output function. To get the numeric value, do:
> Select typoutput::oid from pg_type limit 1;

Also, you *can* go back the other way.  It's very common to write

               Select * from pg_proc where oid = 'boolout'::regproc

rather than looking up the OID first.  There are similar pseudotypes for
relation and operator names; see "Object Identifier Types" in the
manual.

                        regards, tom lane

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