Esteemed monks,

I'm trying to get complete information about some tables with DBI and DBD::Pg.
I'm doing it this way:

my @tables = qw/table1 table2 table3/;

foreach my $tab ( @tables ) {

   my $attrs = DBH->func($tab, 'table_attributes');
    print $q->p,
    $q->strong($_),
    $q->start_table({BORDER=>1}),
    $q->TR(
        $q->th([qw/NAME TYPE SIZE NULLABLE DEFAULT CONSTRAINT PRIMARY_
+KEY/])
       );

     foreach my $item ( @{$attrs} ) {
      print $q->TR(
       $q->td(
        [
         %{$item}->{NAME},
         %{$item}->{TYPE},
         %{$item}->{SIZE},
         %{$item}->{NULLABLE},
         %{$item}->{DEFAULT},
         %{$item}->{CONSTRAINT},
         %{$item}->{PRIMARY_KEY},
        ]
       )
      );
 }
 print $q->end_table;
}
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And I get something similar to this:

NAME   TYPE   SIZE   NULLABLE   DEFAULT
idfield  4      4        0        nextval('public.table1_idfield_seq':
+:text)
(some more rows)
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My problem is: How do I get TYPE values translated into TYPE_NAMES, instead their numbers?

I've been playing with type_info() but it is too complicated for my little experience dealing with data structures :-(

Any kind monk would give me a hand on this?

Or, perhaps, there's some better way to get this done and I don't know about it.

Thanks in advance,
Miguel

UPDATE
Thank you very very much!

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