On Sunday, September 17, 2023, Chapman Flack <c...@anastigmatix.net> wrote:
> > In this one, both identifiers are part of the type name, and the > separator a little more flamboyant. > > select to_regtype('character /* hi! > am I part of the type name? /* what, me too? */ ok! */ -- huh! > varying'); > to_regtype > ------------------- > character varying > So, maybe we should be saying: Parses a string of text, extracts a potential type name from it, and translates that name into an OID. Failure to extract a valid potential type name results in an error while a failure to determine that the extracted name is known to the system results in a null output. I take specific exception to describing your example as a “textual type name”. David J.