Joe Abbate <jma@freedomcircle.com> wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 09:55 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> One possible solution, if you're getting type information about
>> columns from the server, is to cast the type OID to regtype and
>> let the regtype output converter make all the decisions. It's
>> less notation than a join to pg_type anyway.
>
> Unfortunately, Pyrseas' yamltodb gets (some) type information from
> a YAML input file, so we can't do that. However, since user
> defined TYPEs are processed before TABLE definitions, we could
> search for TYPEs in the parallel catalogs (Python dictionaries)
> maintained in memory. So, given this:
>
> schema public:
> description: standard public schema
> table myuser:
> columns:
> - info:
> type: user
> type user:
> attributes:
> - name: text
> - pass: text
>
> we could generate the following SQL against an empty database:
>
> CREATE TYPE "user" AS (name text,
> pass text);
> CREATE TABLE myuser (
> info "user");
You are prepared to handle the difference between char and "char", I
hope.
-Kevin