On Sunday, September 17, 2023, Chapman Flack <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In this one, both identifiers are part of the type name, and the
> separator a little more flamboyant.
>
> select to_regtype('character /* hi!
> am I part of the type name? /* what, me too? */ ok! */ -- huh!
> varying');
> to_regtype
> -------------------
> character varying
>
So, maybe we should be saying:
Parses a string of text, extracts a potential type name from it, and
translates that name into an OID. Failure to extract a valid potential
type name results in an error while a failure to determine that the
extracted name is known to the system results in a null output.
I take specific exception to describing your example as a “textual type
name”.
David J.
