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to_regtypemod

Parses a string of text, extracts a potential type name from it, and translates its type modifier, if any.

Reading PG 18current·documented in 4 of 27 versions, 17 to 20

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Signatures & examples

to_regtypemod ( text ) → integer

Parses a string of text, extracts a potential type name from it, and translates its type modifier, if any. A syntax error in the string will result in an error; but if the string is a syntactically valid type name that happens not to be found in the catalogs, the result is NULL. The result is -1 if no type modifier is present.

format_type(to_regtype('varchar(32)'), to_regtypemod('varchar(32)')) → character varying(32)

Version history 1

16 → 17 added

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