OID of type by name.

SELECT oid FROM pg_type WHERE typtype = 'b' AND typarray <> 0 AND
typname::regtype = 'integer';

Many thanks to Florian Pflug.

2010/12/8 Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com>

Hey general@,

SELECT oid FROM pg_type WHERE typname = 'integer';
oid
-----
(0 rows)

SELECT oid FROM pg_type WHERE typname = 'int4';
oid
-----
23
(1 row)

How can I get OID by name rather than alias ?

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Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com> writes:

How can I get OID by name rather than alias ?

SELECT oid FROM pg_type WHERE typtype = 'b' AND typarray <> 0 AND
typname::regtype = 'integer';

Seems like the hard way --- if you think carefully about what regtype
is doing, you'll realize that this is incredibly inefficient, as well
as a lot of typing. I usually do SELECT 'integer'::regtype::oid
when I need a quick numeric lookup.

regards, tom lane

Yeah, thank you very much!

I've found it already too, but not post back!

Thanks!

2010/12/8 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com> writes:

How can I get OID by name rather than alias ?

SELECT oid FROM pg_type WHERE typtype = 'b' AND typarray <> 0 AND
typname::regtype = 'integer';

Seems like the hard way --- if you think carefully about what regtype
is doing, you'll realize that this is incredibly inefficient, as well
as a lot of typing. I usually do SELECT 'integer'::regtype::oid
when I need a quick numeric lookup.

regards, tom lane

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Actually, all I need is to:

SELECT oid::regtype, oid FROM pg_type WHERE ...

to make cache of OIDs.

2010/12/8 Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com>

Yeah, thank you very much!

I've found it already too, but not post back!

Thanks!

2010/12/8 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Dmitriy Igrishin <dmitigr@gmail.com> writes:

How can I get OID by name rather than alias ?

SELECT oid FROM pg_type WHERE typtype = 'b' AND typarray <> 0 AND
typname::regtype = 'integer';

Seems like the hard way --- if you think carefully about what regtype
is doing, you'll realize that this is incredibly inefficient, as well
as a lot of typing. I usually do SELECT 'integer'::regtype::oid
when I need a quick numeric lookup.

regards, tom lane

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In what version of PG is the 'my_type'::regtype::oid syntax available? I
want to introduce this to the JDBC driver which currently does the most
ridiculous query that totally ignores search path.

JDBC driver does this currently: SELECT oid FROM pg_catalog.pg_type WHERE
typname = ?

So if you have more than one type of the same name (or perhaps a UDT and a
table with the same name as in my case) it just grabs whichever one first
appears in pg_type regardless of search path.

So I intend to change that query to: SELECT ?::regtype::oid

But I need to know if I should be checking the server version or not. What
is the min version that that query will work on?

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2013/3/29 tahoe-gary <gbaker@salesforce.com>

In what version of PG is the 'my_type'::regtype::oid syntax available? I
want to introduce this to the JDBC driver which currently does the most
ridiculous query that totally ignores search path.

JDBC driver does this currently: SELECT oid FROM pg_catalog.pg_type WHERE
typname = ?

So if you have more than one type of the same name (or perhaps a UDT and a
table with the same name as in my case) it just grabs whichever one first
appears in pg_type regardless of search path.

So I intend to change that query to: SELECT ?::regtype::oid

But I need to know if I should be checking the server version or not. What
is the min version that that query will work on?

According to the documentation, I think that Object Identifier Types was
introduced in 7.3.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/datatype-oid.html

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