On Dec15, 2010, at 02:14 , James William Pye wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2010, at 6:16 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> how do you identify which type OID is really hstore?
> 
> How about an identification field on pg_type?
> 
> CREATE TYPE hstore ..., IDENTIFIER 'org.postgresql.hstore';
> -- Where the "identifier" is an arbitrary string.

+1

I've wanted something like this a few times when dealing
with custom types within a client. A future protocol version
might even transmit these identifiers instead a the type's OID,
thereby removing the dependency on OID from clients entirely.

best regards,
Florian Pflug


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