Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying OID lookups in the presence of namespaces

2002-04-22 Thread Tom Lane
Joe Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> Also, for functions and operators the name alone is not sufficient to >> uniquely identify the object. Type regproc currently throws an error >> if asked to convert a nonunique function name; that severely limits its >> usefulness. I'm

Re: [HACKERS] Simplifying OID lookups in the presence of namespaces

2002-04-22 Thread Joe Conway
Tom Lane wrote: > A variant of the idea of inventing functions is to extend the existing > datatype 'regproc' to do this, and invent also 'regclass', 'regtype', > 'regoperator' datatypes to do the lookups for the other object kinds. > I proposed this in a different context last year, > http: