Re: unknown type - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Viktor Bojović
Subject Re: unknown type
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Msg-id BANLkTinm0JjoJgV9wWuT1hdkgOqucRnbyw@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: unknown type  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
Viktor Bojović <viktor.bojovic@gmail.com> writes:
> while restoring backup i have received these messages
> WARNING:  column "id" has type "unknown"
> DETAIL:  Proceeding with relation creation anyway.

It's most likely a view with an output column that's an undecorated
string literal.

> I have tried to grep schema-only dump file, but i didn't find word unknown.
> When i have extracted all mentioned ID fields i didn't find any field which
> is not of type integer,smallint or varchar.

> How can i find out which table has that unknown type?

Try something like

select attrelid::regclass, attname from pg_attribute where atttypid = 'unknown'::regtype;

                       regards, tom lane


that solved the problem. thanx

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