On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Emmanuel Cecchet <manu@asterdata.com> wrote:
> This is problematic in situations where the output of the cast is involved
> in some later join which returns incorrect results because of the extra
> double quotes surrounding the table name. Is there a way to override the
> default behavior to have a consistent quoted or non-quoted result?
regclass's output format is intended for human readers, not for
joining against text columns. Why would you need to be joining between
regclass and text anyways? Normally you would be joining regclass to
either regclass columns or oid columns where it does an integer
comparison.
Actually normally you would just be joining oid columns since most
catalog columns are declared to be oids rather than regfoo columns :(
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greg