2013/3/29 tahoe-gary <gba...@salesforce.com> > In what version of PG is the 'my_type'::regtype::oid syntax available? I > want to introduce this to the JDBC driver which currently does the most > ridiculous query that totally ignores search path. > > JDBC driver does this currently: SELECT oid FROM pg_catalog.pg_type WHERE > typname = ? > > So if you have more than one type of the same name (or perhaps a UDT and a > table with the same name as in my case) it just grabs whichever one first > appears in pg_type regardless of search path. > > So I intend to change that query to: SELECT ?::regtype::oid > > But I need to know if I should be checking the server version or not. What > is the min version that that query will work on? > According to the documentation, I think that Object Identifier Types was introduced in 7.3. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.3/static/datatype-oid.html
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