Re: regclass without error?

Hello, guys.

You wrote:

TI> Hi,

TI> Is there any way to use regclass without having ERROR?

TI> pgpool-II needs to find the oid from table name and for the purpose it
TI> issues something like "SELECT 'table_name'::regproc::oid". Problem is,
TI> if the table does not exist, an error occured and the transaction
TI> aborts. Ideally if the table does not exist, the SELECT returns 0
TI> (InvalidOid).

Agreed with Tatsuo about having InvalidOid.

TI> Any idea?
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TI> Tatsuo Ishii
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