I wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> For reasons which must've seemed good to whoever instituted the
>> policy, pg_dump refers to relkinds using the bare letters rather than
>> the constants.
> Even in pg_dump, it appears to me that the large majority of relkind
> references use the symbolic names.
After further study, I think it was psql/describe.c you were remembering.
I cleaned that up...
regards, tom lane