PostgreSQL

oid

oid

Row identifier

typname

name

Data type name

typnamespace

oid

pg_namespace.oid

The OID of the namespace that contains this type

typowner

oid

pg_authid.oid

Owner of the type

typlen

int2

For a fixed-size type, typlen is the number of bytes in the internal representation of the type. But for a variable-length type, typlen is negative. -1 indicates a “[.quote]#varlena”# type (one that has a length word), -2 indicates a null-terminated C string.

typbyval

bool

typbyval determines whether internal routines pass a value of this type by value or by reference. typbyval had better be false if typlen is not 1, 2, or 4 (or 8 on machines where Datum is 8 bytes). Variable-length types are always passed by reference. Note that typbyval can be false even if the length would allow pass-by-value.

typtype

char

typtype is b for a base type, c for a composite type (e.g., a table’s row type), d for a domain, e for an enum type, p for a pseudo-type, or r for a range type. See also typrelid and typbasetype.

typcategory

char

typcategory is an arbitrary classification of data types that is used by the parser to determine which implicit casts should be “[.quote]#preferred”#. See Table 51.64.

typispreferred

bool

True if the type is a preferred cast target within its typcategory

typisdefined

bool

True if the type is defined, false if this is a placeholder entry for a not-yet-defined type. When typisdefined is false, nothing except the type name, namespace, and OID can be relied on.

typdelim

char

Character that separates two values of this type when parsing array input. Note that the delimiter is associated with the array element data type, not the array data type.

typrelid

oid

pg_class.oid

If this is a composite type (see typtype), then this column points to the pg_class entry that defines the corresponding table. (For a free-standing composite type, the pg_class entry doesn’t really represent a table, but it is needed anyway for the type’s pg_attribute entries to link to.) Zero for non-composite types.

typelem

oid

pg_type.oid

If typelem is not 0 then it identifies another row in pg_type. The current type can then be subscripted like an array yielding values of type typelem. A “[.quote]#true”# array type is variable length (typlen = -1), but some fixed-length (typlen > 0) types also have nonzero typelem, for example name and point. If a fixed-length type has a typelem then its internal representation must be some number of values of the typelem data type with no other data. Variable-length array types have a header defined by the array subroutines.

typarray

oid

pg_type.oid

If typarray is not 0 then it identifies another row in pg_type, which is the “[.quote]#true”# array type having this type as element

typinput

regproc

pg_proc.oid

Input conversion function (text format)

typoutput

regproc

pg_proc.oid

Output conversion function (text format)

typreceive

regproc

pg_proc.oid

Input conversion function (binary format), or 0 if none

typsend

regproc

pg_proc.oid

Output conversion function (binary format), or 0 if none

typmodin

regproc

pg_proc.oid

Type modifier input function, or 0 if type does not support modifiers

typmodout

regproc

pg_proc.oid

Type modifier output function, or 0 to use the standard format

typanalyze

regproc

pg_proc.oid

Custom ANALYZE function, or 0 to use the standard function

typalign

char

typstorage

char

typnotnull

bool

typnotnull represents a not-null constraint on a type. Used for domains only.

typbasetype

oid

pg_type.oid

If this is a domain (see typtype), then typbasetype identifies the type that this one is based on. Zero if this type is not a domain.

typtypmod

int4

Domains use typtypmod to record the typmod to be applied to their base type (-1 if base type does not use a typmod). -1 if this type is not a domain.

typndims

int4

typndims is the number of array dimensions for a domain over an array (that is, typbasetype is an array type). Zero for types other than domains over array types.

typcollation

oid

pg_collation.oid

typcollation specifies the collation of the type. If the type does not support collations, this will be zero. A base type that supports collations will have a nonzero value here, typically DEFAULT_COLLATION_OID. A domain over a collatable type can have a collation OID different from its base type’s, if one was specified for the domain.

typdefaultbin

pg_node_tree

If typdefaultbin is not null, it is the nodeToString() representation of a default expression for the type. This is only used for domains.

typdefault

text

typdefault is null if the type has no associated default value. If typdefaultbin is not null, typdefault must contain a human-readable version of the default expression represented by typdefaultbin. If typdefaultbin is null and typdefault is not, then typdefault is the external representation of the type’s default value, which can be fed to the type’s input converter to produce a constant.

typacl

aclitem[]

Access privileges; see Section 5.7 for details

A

Array types

B

Boolean types

C

Composite types

D

Date/time types

E

Enum types

G

Geometric types

I

Network address types

N

Numeric types

P

Pseudo-types

R

Range types

S

String types

T

Timespan types

U

User-defined types

V

Bit-string types

X

unknown type