The patch is also clear for me, thanks for working on it.

Best,

Federico

From: Laurenz Albe
Sent: mercoledì 5 maggio 2021 09:32
To: Tom Lane; Federico
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG #16991: regclass is not case sensitive causing "relation does not exist" error

On Tue, 2021-05-04 at 19:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:

> [ redirecting to pgsql-docs list ]

>

> I wrote:

> > Federico <cfederico87@gmail.com> writes:

> > > I did not come across that documented behavior while searching for regclass

> > > in the pg docs. The most relevant page I was able to find was the Object

> > > Identifier Types page that does not mention it.

> > > I'll look into proposing a change in that docs page to mention it, if

> > > that's the appropriate location for it.

> > Hmm ... I *thought* it was documented, but perhaps not.  If not,

> > it's likely that the other reg* types are likewise underdocumented.

>

> So what I was remembering was some text in the section about sequence

> functions.  That probably seemed appropriate when they were the only

> real use of regclass; but these days we have regclass-accepting functions

> all over, not to mention other OID alias types.  I propose the attached

> patch to move this info into the "Object Identifier Types" section.

That patch looks good to me.

I think it is an improvement to have that discussed under "data types".

Yours,

Laurenz Albe