Carsten Kropf <ckropf2@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
