Re: determining a type oid from the name

On 02/22/2012 03:20 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan<andrew@dunslane.net>  writes:
>> Maybe I need to be more clear. The C code I'm writing will process
>> composites. I want to cache the Oids of certain non-builtin types in the
>> function info's fn_extra, and then be able to test whether or not the
>> fields in the composites are of those types.
> What's your basis for identifying those types in the first place?
> Name?  Doesn't seem terribly robust if the other extension can be
> installed in some random schema.  But anyway, something in
> parser/parse_type.c ought to help you with that --- maybe
> parseTypeString?
>
>             


Thanks, that might do the trick.

I fully agree it's not bulletproof, but I'm not sure what alternative 
there is.

cheers

andrew