Re: Finding the correct type

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas(at)tada(dot)se>]

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 12:50:23PM +0200, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> > I'm writing a UDT that takes a varchar argument that represents the name 
> > of a type. The caller may optionally qualify with a namespace, i.e. 
> > "pg_catalog.varchar", or "public.address". Is there a c-function 
> > somewhere that will return the pg_type that corresponds to the name 
> > (with respect to the current setting of search_path in case the name is 
> > unqualified)?
>
> If you want it as a C string, something like format_type_be() would
> suffice. Not it's designed for use in error messages so it makes no
> particular to clean up after itself.
>
> Another possibility is the output function for the regtype type, ie
> regtypeout.
>
> Hope this helps,
Well, regtypeout led me to regtypein which in turn led me to parseTypeString which seems to 
be exactly what I want.

Thanks,
Thomas Hallgren