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