PostgreSQL 7.4.5, 8.0.0beta3

The Object Identifier Types section of the PostgreSQL documentation
contains the following:

for example, one may write 'mytable'::regclass to get the OID
of table mytable, rather than SELECT oid FROM pg_class WHERE
relname = 'mytable'.

To get the OID, don't we then need to cast to the oid type?

test=> SELECT 'mytable'::regclass;
regclass
----------
mytable
(1 row)

test=> SELECT 'mytable'::regclass:id;
oid
-------
26664
(1 row)

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Michael Fuhr
http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/

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Michael Fuhr <mike (AT) fuhr (DOT) org> writes:
If you want to see it as a numeric value, yeah, but you can for example
compare it to an OID column without doing that.

SELECT attname FROM pg_attribute WHERE attrelid = 'mytable'::regclass;

Most of the time when I'm using a regxxx cast, it's because I *don't*
want to be bothered with the numeric value.

regards, tom lane

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