diff --git a/decode.ts b/decode.ts
index 5012a3b6..63c520fa 100644
--- a/decode.ts
+++ b/decode.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { Oid } from "./oid.ts";
+import { Oid, runtimeOids } from "./oid.ts";
 import { Column, Format } from "./connection.ts";
 
 // Datetime parsing based on:
@@ -177,6 +177,15 @@ function decodeByteaEscape(byteaStr: string): Uint8Array {
 
 const decoder = new TextDecoder();
 
+function handleDynamicOid(oid: number, strValue: string): any {
+  // TODO: handle this properly
+  if(runtimeOids.has(oid)) {
+    return strValue;
+  } else {
+    throw new Error(`Don't know how to parse column type: ${oid}`);
+  }
+}
+
 // deno-lint-ignore no-explicit-any
 function decodeText(value: Uint8Array, typeOid: number): any {
   const strValue = decoder.decode(value);
@@ -231,7 +240,7 @@ function decodeText(value: Uint8Array, typeOid: number): any {
     case Oid.bytea:
       return decodeBytea(strValue);
     default:
-      throw new Error(`Don't know how to parse column type: ${typeOid}`);
+      return handleDynamicOid(typeOid, strValue);
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/oid.ts b/oid.ts
index 5bdbb8cd..097c4adb 100644
--- a/oid.ts
+++ b/oid.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import { Client, PoolClient } from "./client.ts";
+
 export const Oid = {
   bool: 16,
   bytea: 17,
@@ -167,3 +169,16 @@ export const Oid = {
   regrole: 4096,
   _regrole: 4097,
 };
+
+export const runtimeOids = new Set();
+
+/**
+ * loadRuntimeOids
+ * Loads user defined oids at runtime
+ * @param handle database client that can be used to fetch enum ids
+ */
+export async function loadRuntimeOids(handle: Client | PoolClient) {
+  const result = await handle.query("SELECT DISTINCT enumtypid FROM pg_enum");
+  // TODO: error check
+  result.rows.forEach(oid => runtimeOids.add(+oid[0]));
+}
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