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From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: interperting type oid in C code
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Msg-id 20151019190841.GM3391@alvherre.pgsql
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In response to Re: interperting type oid in C code  (Ken Been <kbbeen@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: interperting type oid in C code  (Ken Been <kbbeen@gmail.com>)
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Ken Been wrote:
> Thanks, but I actually wanted to do it from C code.  But anyway I think I
> found the answer: use the symbolic constants in catalog/pg_type.h, such as
> INT4OID.

You can probably use
SearchSysCache1(TYPEOID, ObjectIdGetDatum(your_oid))
or perhaps
lookup_type_cache(your_oid).

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