Retrieve columntypes and checks?

From: Jesper Krogh <jesper(at)krogh(dot)cc>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Retrieve columntypes and checks?
Date: 2004-10-28 10:27:30
Message-ID: clqhii$pf6$1@sea.gmane.org
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Trying to convert an application from MySQL to PostgreSQL I ran into
some troubles..

In MySQL is it quite easy to find out which type a column is.. in
particular if a column is an "enum" so the webapplication can do
appropiate checks in javascript in advance for an insert.

In PostgreSQL the enum's are converted to varchar with checks, so I need
to get a hold on the column-type and if it's a varchar parse the check
string for values..

How do I do that?

Any better suggestions?

Thanks.

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./Jesper Krogh, jesper(at)krogh(dot)cc

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