Re: Proposal: variant of regclass

Pavel Golub <pavel@microolap.com> writes:
> I personally see two approaches:
> 1. Implement GUC variable controling this behaviour per session
> 2. Introduce new safe reg* variables, e.g. "sregclass", "sregtype" etc.

I don't think new types are a good idea.  If we are afraid to change
the behavior of the input converters, what we should do is introduce
new functions, eg "toregclass(text) returns regclass".
        regards, tom lane