Re: unknown type

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> =?UTF-8?Q?Viktor_Bojovi=C4=87?= <viktor(dot)bojovic(at)gmail(dot)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
>

that solved the problem. thanx

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