Re: Proposal: variant of regclass

On 12/5/13, 9:41 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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".

We could invent some sneaky syntax variants, like 'pg_klass'::regclass
errors, but '?pg_klass'::regclass does not.