Re: ToDo List Item - System Table Index Clustering

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Nicolas Barbier <nicolas(dot)barbier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simone Aiken <saiken(at)ulfheim(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: ToDo List Item - System Table Index Clustering
Date: 2011-01-16 16:34:31
Message-ID: 8460.1295195671@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Nicolas Barbier <nicolas(dot)barbier(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> 2011/1/16 Simone Aiken <saiken(at)ulfheim(dot)net>:
>> ... So even though the documentation says that column
>> maps to pg_proc.oid I can't then write:
>> Select * from pg_proc where oid = 'boolout';

> Type type of typoutput is "regproc", which is really an oid with a
> different output function. To get the numeric value, do:
> Select typoutput::oid from pg_type limit 1;

Also, you *can* go back the other way. It's very common to write

Select * from pg_proc where oid = 'boolout'::regproc

rather than looking up the OID first. There are similar pseudotypes for
relation and operator names; see "Object Identifier Types" in the
manual.

regards, tom lane

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