Re: check if type is valid pg type

Hi Josh,

That is exactly what I needed. Thank you very much. However, is there a way to do this without getting an exception if
thetype does not exist? 

Cheers,
Dominik

On Oct 10, 2012, at 23:20 , Josh Kupershmidt <schmiddy@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Dominik Moritz <domoritz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I need to check, whether a type is a valid postgres type or not. My first take was to check in the pg_type table.
However,pg_type does not list types such as integer (but it does list int4) or float (but it does indeed list float8).
Whatis the best way to check whether a type is valid or not? 
>
> You could cast the type name to regtype, e.g.
>
>  SELECT 'integer'::regtype, 'float'::regtype;
>
> Josh