<btober@seaworthysys.com> writes:
> After I execute a command like
> CREATE TYPE employee_wage_journal_sum AS (supplier_pk integer,
> employee_pk integer,
> hourly_dollars double precision,
> annual_dollars double precision);
> I don't see the new type show up anywhere in pgAdminII.
Probably not. Stand-alone composite types (like the above) are a new
feature in 7.3, and pgAdminII likely doesn't know about them.
You might try pgAdmin III, which just got out of beta I believe.
> but I see only the name itself (and a lot of "*id" columns that probably
> reference something relevant), but I don't know how to get the actual
> definition back so that I can use an existing type definition as the
> basis for modification when application design changes are required.
There's always "pg_dump -s" to extract such stuff.
regards, tom lane
