Re: BUG #5358: Throwing unexpected ERROR

"Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> select relname, pg_relation_size( 'public."' || relname || '"' )/1024
> from (select distinct relname
> from (select r.relname, c.attname, c.attnotnull, t.typname
> from pg_namespace as s, pg_class as r, pg_attribute as c, pg_type as t
> where s.oid = r.relnamespace
> and r.oid = c.attrelid
> and c.atttypid = t.oid
> and s.nspname = 'public'
> and t.typname in ('bytea', 'text') ) as s1
> ) as s2
> where pg_relation_size( 'public."' || relname || '"' ) <> 0;

> ERROR: relation "public.pg_type" does not exist

That approach to generating a textual name for a relation is really
pretty unworkable: it's on the hairy edge of being vulnerable to
SQL injection attacks, not to mention being inefficient and unwieldy.
Just pass r.oid to pg_relation_size, instead.

regards, tom lane