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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Federico <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: BUG #16991: regclass is not case sensitive causing "relation does not exist" error
Date: Wed, 05 May 2021 09:32:14 +0200
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On Tue, 2021-05-04 at 19:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> [ redirecting to pgsql-docs list ]
> 
> I wrote:
> > Federico <[email protected]> writes:
> > > I did not come across that documented behavior while searching for regclass
> > > in the pg docs. The most relevant page I was able to find was the Object
> > > Identifier Types page that does not mention it.
> > > I'll look into proposing a change in that docs page to mention it, if
> > > that's the appropriate location for it.
> > Hmm ... I *thought* it was documented, but perhaps not.  If not,
> > it's likely that the other reg* types are likewise underdocumented.
> 
> So what I was remembering was some text in the section about sequence
> functions.  That probably seemed appropriate when they were the only
> real use of regclass; but these days we have regclass-accepting functions
> all over, not to mention other OID alias types.  I propose the attached
> patch to move this info into the "Object Identifier Types" section.

That patch looks good to me.
I think it is an improvement to have that discussed under "data types".

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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