Re: Selecting user-defined CASTs

From: Joe Abbate <jma(at)freedomcircle(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Selecting user-defined CASTs
Date: 2011-08-09 13:49:12
Message-ID: 4E413AD8.9000602@freedomcircle.com
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On 08/09/2011 01:27 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Another approach is to check pg_depend. A cast installed by initdb will
> match a "pin" entry in pg_depend (refclassid = pg_cast, refobjid =
> cast's OID, deptype = 'p'). You're still out of luck for distinguishing
> extension members in existing releases, but in 9.1 and up it'll be
> possible to identify casts belonging to extensions from pg_depend
> entries.

Intriguing alternative.

The query is for my dbtoyaml utility which is sort of equivalent to
pg_dump -s --format=y (yaml). So for now, I'll stick to emulating what
dumpCast in pg_dump.c does.

Joe

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