Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> I found the following while poking around. RangeVarGetRelid takes a
> second parameter that is intended to allow it to not fail, returning
> InvalidOid instead. However it calls LookupExplicitNamespace, which does
> not honor any such request, and happily generates an error on a bad
> namespace name:
ISTR deciding that that was okay, and there was no need to clutter
LookupExplicitNamespace with an extra parameter. Don't recall the
reasoning at the moment...
regards, tom lane