On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Daniele Varrazzo
<daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> when a query returns a composite type, the libpq PQftype() function
> reports the oid of the "record" type. In psycopg:
>
> >>> cur.execute("select (1,2)")
> >>> cur.description
> (('row', 2249, None, -1, None, None, None),)
>
> test=# select typname from pg_type where oid = 2249;
> typname
> ---------
> record
>
> Is there a way to recursively retrieve the types for the record components?
not without talking to the server, unless you had previously pulled
pg_attribute data.
select * from pg_attribute where attrelid = 2249;
This question is more appropriate for -general, but what are you trying to do?
merlin