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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:12:45 -0500
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On 06/22/2011 04:55 AM, Marti Raudsepp wrote:

> With Jim Nasby's idea to use regclass instead of relation names, the
> function is now half its length and probably more reliable. There's no
> need to touch pg_class directly at all.

Sadly until we upgrade to EDB 9.0, I have to use my function. :) EDB 8.3 
(which is really PostgreSQL 8.2) doesn't have a regclass->text 
conversion. But I'll bookmark the wiki page anyway, so I can update my 
function after upgrading. Heh.

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