RFE: map column_info 'pg_type' field onto exported PG_XXXX numeric constants

[djerius]

I have code which works on columns of arbitrary types, using column_info to extract the column type. I would like to more easily support the Postgres specific types, but while my code is based around the constants returned by the :pg_types export tag, the type returned by column_info in the pg_type field is a string name, rather than the enumerated integers provided by :pg_types.

Would it be possible for column_info to return an additional field which returns the PG_XXX constants, or provide a function which maps the string onto those constants?

Thanks,
Diab