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List:       postgresql-general
Subject:    Re: [HACKERS] Finding the correct type
From:       Thomas Hallgren <thomas () tada ! se>
Date:       2006-04-30 12:28:42
Message-ID: 4454AD7A.30109 () tada ! se
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 12:50:23PM +0200, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
>> I'm writing a UDT that takes a varchar argument that represents the name 
>> of a type. The caller may optionally qualify with a namespace, i.e. 
>> "pg_catalog.varchar", or "public.address". Is there a c-function 
>> somewhere that will return the pg_type that corresponds to the name 
>> (with respect to the current setting of search_path in case the name is 
>> unqualified)?
> 
> If you want it as a C string, something like format_type_be() would
> suffice. Not it's designed for use in error messages so it makes no
> particular to clean up after itself.
> 
> Another possibility is the output function for the regtype type, ie
> regtypeout.
> 
> Hope this helps,
Well, regtypeout led me to regtypein which in turn led me to parseTypeString which seems to 
be exactly what I want.

Thanks,
Thomas Hallgren


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