On Dec15, 2010, at 02:14 , James William Pye wrote: > On Dec 13, 2010, at 6:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >> how do you identify which type OID is really hstore? > > How about an identification field on pg_type? > > CREATE TYPE hstore ..., IDENTIFIER 'org.postgresql.hstore'; > -- Where the "identifier" is an arbitrary string.
+1 I've wanted something like this a few times when dealing with custom types within a client. A future protocol version might even transmit these identifiers instead a the type's OID, thereby removing the dependency on OID from clients entirely. best regards, Florian Pflug -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
