Re: Get data type aliases - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Get data type aliases
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Msg-id 20130612193109.GH5491@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Get data type aliases  (Rebecca Clarke <r.clarke83@gmail.com>)
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Rebecca Clarke escribió:
> Hi all.
>
> I have a function that has an attribute with datatype of character varying.
> In the pg_type table the oid of the data type points to type varchar
>
> Is there somewhere that identifies the alias for each type?

Cast the type name to regtype.  That outputs the "official" name.

alvherre=# select 'int'::regtype;
 regtype
---------
 integer
(1 fila)


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