Oid to text...

[Katsaros Kwn/nos]

Hi,

Given the Oid restype of a Resdom "object", is there any system table I
could query in order to retrieve the text representation of this type?

If for example a Resdom restype is 23 how can I get the string "integer"
or something like that? Are these mappings stored anyware?

Thanks in advance,
Ntinos Katsaros

PS: I searched the archives but my queries did not give anything...
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[Ian Barwick]

On 22 Nov 2004 14:25:26 +0200, Katsaros Kwn/nos <nt****@aueb.gr> wrote:

Hi,

Given the Oid restype of a Resdom "object", is there any system table I
could query in order to retrieve the text representation of this type?

If for example a Resdom restype is 23 how can I get the string "integer"
or something like that? Are these mappings stored anyware?

pg_catalog.pg_type ?

Ian Barwick

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[Tom Lane]

"Katsaros Kwn/nos" <nt****@aueb.gr> writes:

Given the Oid restype of a Resdom "object", is there any system table I
could query in order to retrieve the text representation of this type?

If you're talking about C code inside the backend, format_type_be() is
the usual subroutine.

regards, tom lane

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