| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: regclass without error? |
| Date: | 2010-09-03 13:33:02 |
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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> wrote:
> 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).
>
> Any idea?
You can write a query against the system catalog tables. Or you could
install a function that wraps the regclass cast in an exception
handler.
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Robert Haas
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