Re: Proposal: variant of regclass

> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)sraoss(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
>> I would like to add a variant of regclass, which is exactly same as
>> current regclass except it does not raise an error when the target
>> table is not found. Instead it returns InvalidOid (0).
>
> I've sometimes thought we should just make all the reg* input converters
> act that way. It's not terribly consistent that they'll happily take
> numeric inputs that don't correspond to any existing OID. And more
> often than not, I've found the throw-an-error behavior to be annoying
> not helpful.
>
> In any case, -1 for dealing with this only for regclass and not the
> other ones.

I'm happy with changing reg* at the same time. Will come up with the
modified proposal.

Best regards,
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Tatsuo Ishii
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