Oh, thanks, that's right, I see that this function I used before, searches only in the currently used schema. The usage of parseTypeString is comparable easy, as well, so based on your hints, I will probably use this function. Best regards Carsten Kropf Am 22.03.2010 um 16:23 schrieb Tom Lane: > 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 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
