pg-custom-types 

Use custom data types with node-postgres.

Installation

``sh
npm install pg-custom-types
`

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Fetches the OIDs for the given types.

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| parameter | type | description |
| --------------- | ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| fetcher | Object | The query function of the form function (sql, callback) |
| key | String | A name for the given set of types, used to cache the results. It can be anything. |
| types | Array | The array of data type names to fetch |
| callback | Function | The callback to call after the types are fetched |

Callback is called with an object containing a lookup table.

`
{ 21842552: 'geometry',
21842762: 'geography' }
`

Example

`js
var types = require('pg-custom-types');

types(types.fetcher(pg, connection), 'postgis', ['geometry', 'geography'], (err, oids) {
if (err) {
throw err;
}

console.log(oids.geometry);
console.log(oids.geography);

pg.setTypeParser(oids.geometry, function (value) {
// parse geometry type
});
});
``