Re: Determining the OID of a certain type

Oh, thanks, that's right, I see that this function I used before, searches only in the currently used schema. The usage of parseTypeString is comparable easy, as well, so based on your hints, I will probably use this function.
Best regards
Carsten Kropf
Am 22.03.2010 um 16:23 schrieb Tom Lane:

> Carsten Kropf <ckropf2(at)fh-hof(dot)de> writes:
>> 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:
>> Oid
>> TypenameGetTypid(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!
>
> Actually, parseTypeString() is what I was thinking of. TypenameGetTypid
> won't cope with schema-qualified names, nor a lot of other cases.
>
> regards, tom lane
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