Change of behaviour of pg_get_userbyid & pg_get_viewdef - do it?

Based on the lack of reaction on GENERAL and SQL, I am inclined to go ahead
with the
changes below at least as far as returning NULL instead of 'Not a View' or
'unknown (UID=<uid-number>)' (as per Tom's request), if noone objects...

At 13:15 24/09/00 +1000, Philip Warner wrote:
>
>Two routines do eccentric things when they can't find required supporting
>data:
>
>pg_get_userbyid
>
> returns 'unknown (UID=<uid-number>)' when the UID does not exist.
>
>pg_get_viewdef
>
> returns 'Not a view' when passed a non-existant or non-view table
> it also signals errors when the underlying metadata can not be found.
>
>The proposal is to return NULL in the above cases - in the final case,
>probably also generate a NOTICE.
>
>Does anybody have a problem with this? Think it's a bad idea etc?
>

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