Thread: User-defined types
Anyone know of a quick and dirty query that can retrieve the various type definitions ? I am looking to retrieve the schema-equivalent representation of a custom (user-defined) types.
\dT
-Daniel
-Daniel
On 4/7/06, codeWarrior <gpatnude@hotmail.com> wrote:
Anyone know of a quick and dirty query that can retrieve the various type
definitions ? I am looking to retrieve the schema-equivalent representation
of a custom (user-defined) types.
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"codeWarrior" <gpatnude@hotmail.com> writes: > Anyone know of a quick and dirty query that can retrieve the various type > definitions ? I am looking to retrieve the schema-equivalent representation > of a custom (user-defined) types. Invoking "pg_dump -s" is by far the most future-proof approach. regards, tom lane
I figured it out.... BTW: I was thinking more along the lines of: SELECT PT.*, PA.* FROM pg_attribute PA JOIN pg_type PT ON PA.attrelid = PT.typrelid JOIN pg_class PC ON PC.oid = PA.attrelid WHERE PT.typnamespace = 2200 AND PA.attnum > 0 AND PC.relkind IN ('r', 'c', 'v'); Perhaps this should be made into a view in the information_schema..... Regards, Gregory P. Patnude Vice President - Applications & Innovations Group iDynaTECH, Inc 665 North Riverpoint Blvd Spokane, WA 99202 (509) 343-3104 [voice] (208) 691-6198 [cellular] http://www.idynatech.com "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote in message news:15086.1144434800@sss.pgh.pa.us... > "codeWarrior" <gpatnude@hotmail.com> writes: >> Anyone know of a quick and dirty query that can retrieve the various type >> definitions ? I am looking to retrieve the schema-equivalent >> representation >> of a custom (user-defined) types. > > Invoking "pg_dump -s" is by far the most future-proof approach. > > regards, tom lane > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly >
"codeWarrior" <gpatnude@hotmail.com> writes: > BTW: I was thinking more along the lines of: > SELECT PT.*, PA.* FROM pg_attribute PA > JOIN pg_type PT ON PA.attrelid = PT.typrelid > JOIN pg_class PC ON PC.oid = PA.attrelid > WHERE PT.typnamespace = 2200 AND PA.attnum > 0 AND PC.relkind IN ('r', 'c', > 'v'); > Perhaps this should be made into a view in the information_schema..... It seems like the COLUMN_UDT_USAGE view ought to handle this ... except perhaps that COLUMN_UDT_USAGE for some reason substitutes the underlying type if the column type is a domain. I can't see the justification for that --- Peter, what part of the spec led you to do it that way? There is probably more than one way to define the spec's notion of "user-defined types" in terms of Postgres notions, but I don't see where you got this particular definition. regards, tom lane