Vik Fearing <v...@postgresfriends.org> writes:
> No, that is precisely the point. The result should be null instead of
> an error.
Yeah, ideally so, but the cost/benefit of making it happen seems
pretty unattractive for now. See the soft-errors thread at [1],
particularly [2] (but searching in that thread for references to
regclassin, regtypein, and to_reg* will find additional detail).
regards, tom lane
[1]
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/3bbbb0df-7382-bf87-9737-340ba096e034%40postgrespro.ru
[2] https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/3342239.1671988406%40sss.pgh.pa.us
