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Display user-defined types and their details
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Problem
I've created a few new UDTs in PostgreSQL. However, now I have two problems:
Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything on that in the PostgreSQL documentation.
- how to see which UDTs have been defined?
- how to see the columns defined within these UDTs?
Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything on that in the PostgreSQL documentation.
Solution
Does this get you started?
In psql you can
used to generate the output of the
to be very useful as a starting point when digging metadata out of databases.
Update: 2019-12-16
For composite types, the columns metadata can be determined using something like the following:
SELECT n.nspname AS schema,
pg_catalog.format_type ( t.oid, NULL ) AS name,
t.typname AS internal_name,
CASE
WHEN t.typrelid != 0
THEN CAST ( 'tuple' AS pg_catalog.text )
WHEN t.typlen 'pg_catalog'
AND n.nspname <> 'information_schema'
AND pg_catalog.pg_type_is_visible ( t.oid )
ORDER BY 1, 2;In psql you can
\set ECHO_HIDDEN on to make psql show you the queries used to generate the output of the
\d... commands. I've found these queries to be very useful as a starting point when digging metadata out of databases.
Update: 2019-12-16
For composite types, the columns metadata can be determined using something like the following:
WITH types AS (
SELECT n.nspname,
pg_catalog.format_type ( t.oid, NULL ) AS obj_name,
CASE
WHEN t.typrelid != 0 THEN CAST ( 'tuple' AS pg_catalog.text )
WHEN t.typlen 'pg_catalog'
AND n.nspname <> 'information_schema'
AND n.nspname !~ '^pg_toast'
),
cols AS (
SELECT n.nspname::text AS schema_name,
pg_catalog.format_type ( t.oid, NULL ) AS obj_name,
a.attname::text AS column_name,
pg_catalog.format_type ( a.atttypid, a.atttypmod ) AS data_type,
a.attnotnull AS is_required,
a.attnum AS ordinal_position,
pg_catalog.col_description ( a.attrelid, a.attnum ) AS description
FROM pg_catalog.pg_attribute a
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_type t
ON a.attrelid = t.typrelid
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n
ON ( n.oid = t.typnamespace )
JOIN types
ON ( types.nspname = n.nspname
AND types.obj_name = pg_catalog.format_type ( t.oid, NULL ) )
WHERE a.attnum > 0
AND NOT a.attisdropped
)
SELECT cols.schema_name,
cols.obj_name,
cols.column_name,
cols.data_type,
cols.ordinal_position,
cols.is_required,
coalesce ( cols.description, '' ) AS description
FROM cols
ORDER BY cols.schema_name,
cols.obj_name,
cols.ordinal_position ;Code Snippets
SELECT n.nspname AS schema,
pg_catalog.format_type ( t.oid, NULL ) AS name,
t.typname AS internal_name,
CASE
WHEN t.typrelid != 0
THEN CAST ( 'tuple' AS pg_catalog.text )
WHEN t.typlen < 0
THEN CAST ( 'var' AS pg_catalog.text )
ELSE CAST ( t.typlen AS pg_catalog.text )
END AS size,
pg_catalog.array_to_string (
ARRAY( SELECT e.enumlabel
FROM pg_catalog.pg_enum e
WHERE e.enumtypid = t.oid
ORDER BY e.oid ), E'\n'
) AS elements,
pg_catalog.obj_description ( t.oid, 'pg_type' ) AS description
FROM pg_catalog.pg_type t
LEFT JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n
ON n.oid = t.typnamespace
WHERE ( t.typrelid = 0
OR ( SELECT c.relkind = 'c'
FROM pg_catalog.pg_class c
WHERE c.oid = t.typrelid
)
)
AND NOT EXISTS
( SELECT 1
FROM pg_catalog.pg_type el
WHERE el.oid = t.typelem
AND el.typarray = t.oid
)
AND n.nspname <> 'pg_catalog'
AND n.nspname <> 'information_schema'
AND pg_catalog.pg_type_is_visible ( t.oid )
ORDER BY 1, 2;WITH types AS (
SELECT n.nspname,
pg_catalog.format_type ( t.oid, NULL ) AS obj_name,
CASE
WHEN t.typrelid != 0 THEN CAST ( 'tuple' AS pg_catalog.text )
WHEN t.typlen < 0 THEN CAST ( 'var' AS pg_catalog.text )
ELSE CAST ( t.typlen AS pg_catalog.text )
END AS obj_type,
coalesce ( pg_catalog.obj_description ( t.oid, 'pg_type' ), '' ) AS description
FROM pg_catalog.pg_type t
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n
ON n.oid = t.typnamespace
WHERE ( t.typrelid = 0
OR ( SELECT c.relkind = 'c'
FROM pg_catalog.pg_class c
WHERE c.oid = t.typrelid ) )
AND NOT EXISTS (
SELECT 1
FROM pg_catalog.pg_type el
WHERE el.oid = t.typelem
AND el.typarray = t.oid )
AND n.nspname <> 'pg_catalog'
AND n.nspname <> 'information_schema'
AND n.nspname !~ '^pg_toast'
),
cols AS (
SELECT n.nspname::text AS schema_name,
pg_catalog.format_type ( t.oid, NULL ) AS obj_name,
a.attname::text AS column_name,
pg_catalog.format_type ( a.atttypid, a.atttypmod ) AS data_type,
a.attnotnull AS is_required,
a.attnum AS ordinal_position,
pg_catalog.col_description ( a.attrelid, a.attnum ) AS description
FROM pg_catalog.pg_attribute a
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_type t
ON a.attrelid = t.typrelid
JOIN pg_catalog.pg_namespace n
ON ( n.oid = t.typnamespace )
JOIN types
ON ( types.nspname = n.nspname
AND types.obj_name = pg_catalog.format_type ( t.oid, NULL ) )
WHERE a.attnum > 0
AND NOT a.attisdropped
)
SELECT cols.schema_name,
cols.obj_name,
cols.column_name,
cols.data_type,
cols.ordinal_position,
cols.is_required,
coalesce ( cols.description, '' ) AS description
FROM cols
ORDER BY cols.schema_name,
cols.obj_name,
cols.ordinal_position ;Context
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