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From: vlsi (@vlsi) <[email protected]>
To: pgjdbc/pgjdbc <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [pgjdbc/pgjdbc] PR #3244: refactor: use oid=?::regtype when fetching pg_type by name instead of joining pg_namespace
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:15:17 +0000
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

It turns out `::regtype` is not reliable in PostgreSQL.

For instance `select 'any'::regtype` fails with

```
ERROR: syntax error at or near "any"
invalid type name "any"
```

`select 'cardinal_number'::regtype;` fails with

```
ERROR: type "cardinal_number" does not exist
```

However, if I create `create domain cardinal_number as int8`, then `'cardinal_number'::regtype` heals.
Here's an SQL to query types that can't process with a cast to `regtype`: `select * from pg_type where typname <> 'any' and to_regtype(typname) is null;`

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