Thanks a lot,
basically I looked inside these functions in parse_type.c and did not find an "easy to use" application here. So I considered trying to construct the required arguments passed to typenameType. However, during the development, I found the following function:
OidTypenameGetTypid(const char *typname)
which does indeed do the lookup of my particular type in the cache and system catalog tables. Thanks a lot for the hint!
Best regards
Carsten Kropf
Am 22.03.2010 um 13:18 schrieb Tom Lane:
Carsten Kropf <
ckropf2@fh-hof.de> writes:
I wanted to ask, if there is a method to determine the oid of a
certain type using the C backend interface?
Starting from what?
For built-in types it's usual practice to use the #define from
pg_type.h, if there is one. If you have a string name for the type,
there's a parser function to derive an OID, which I forget the name
of but it's probably in parse_type.c.
regards, tom lane
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