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Inability to cast regclass is too restrictive

Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> — 2004-10-09T00:25:01Z

Release 8.0.0.0beta3

I tried to use regclass() in a plpgsql function to derive a tablename
from its oid so as to build a command string, but I am unable to use the
value returned because it cannot be cast to anything.  Therefore I will
have to use a complex query on the catalog to do the same work.

This seems overly restrictive.  Would there be a problem in allowing
regclass() to be cast to text?

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