From: | Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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To: | tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us |
Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: regclass without error? |
Date: | 2010-09-03 23:43:51 |
Message-ID: | 20100904.084351.115964270.t-ishii@sraoss.co.jp |
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> Tatsuo Ishii <ishii(at)postgresql(dot)org> writes:
> > 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).
>
> I don't think the cast should act that way, but I could see providing a
> separate conversion function that returns 0 ... or perhaps better NULL
> ... if no match.
Such a function should be very helpfull. Great!
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Tatsuo Ishii
SRA OSS, Inc. Japan
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