> Tatsuo Ishii <is...@sraoss.co.jp> writes: >> I would like to add a variant of regclass, which is exactly same as >> current regclass except it does not raise an error when the target >> table is not found. Instead it returns InvalidOid (0). > > I've sometimes thought we should just make all the reg* input converters > act that way. It's not terribly consistent that they'll happily take > numeric inputs that don't correspond to any existing OID. And more > often than not, I've found the throw-an-error behavior to be annoying > not helpful. > > In any case, -1 for dealing with this only for regclass and not the > other ones.
I'm happy with changing reg* at the same time. Will come up with the modified proposal. Best regards, -- Tatsuo Ishii SRA OSS, Inc. Japan English: http://www.sraoss.co.jp/index_en.php Japanese: http://www.sraoss.co.jp -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
