Re: Get data type aliases

Rebecca Clarke escribió:
> Hi all.
>
> I have a function that has an attribute with datatype of character varying.
> In the pg_type table the oid of the data type points to type varchar
>
> Is there somewhere that identifies the alias for each type?

Cast the type name to regtype.  That outputs the "official" name.

alvherre=# select 'int'::regtype;
 regtype
---------
 integer
(1 fila)


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