> Tatsuo Ishii <is...@postgresql.org> writes: > > Is there any way to use regclass without having ERROR? > > > pgpool-II needs to find the oid from table name and for the purpose it > > issues something like "SELECT 'table_name'::regproc::oid". Problem is, > > if the table does not exist, an error occured and the transaction > > aborts. Ideally if the table does not exist, the SELECT returns 0 > > (InvalidOid). > > I don't think the cast should act that way, but I could see providing a > separate conversion function that returns 0 ... or perhaps better NULL > ... if no match.
Such a function should be very helpfull. Great! -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
