On Tue, 2021-05-04 at 19:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > [ redirecting to pgsql-docs list ] > > I wrote: > > Federico <cfederic...@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
