Re: unknown type

Viktor Bojović <viktor.bojovic@gmail.com> writes:
> while restoring backup i have received these messages
> WARNING:  column "id" has type "unknown"
> DETAIL:  Proceeding with relation creation anyway.

It's most likely a view with an output column that's an undecorated
string literal.

> I have tried to grep schema-only dump file, but i didn't find word unknown.
> When i have extracted all mentioned ID fields i didn't find any field which
> is not of type integer,smallint or varchar.

> How can i find out which table has that unknown type?

Try something like

select attrelid::regclass, attname from pg_attribute where atttypid = 'unknown'::regtype;

                       regards, tom lane