Moritz Sinn wrote:
> hi,
>
> with the following statement, i get the datatype of a column with help of
> its name and the tableoid:
>
> SELECT typname FROM pg_attribute LEFT JOIN pg_type ON atttypid=typelem
> WHERE attrelid=18210 AND attname='email';
>
> but if the columns datatyp is an array, that doesn't work.
> i'd like to get the basic datatype (the datatype of the array elements) then.
See typelem:
http://www.us.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/7.3/postgres/catalog-pg-type.html
HTH,
Joe
