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FUNCTIONS / SYSTEM INFORMATION FUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS

Translates a textual database name to its OID.

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Signatures & examples

to_regdatabase ( text ) → regdatabase
Translates a textual database name to its OID. A similar result is obtained by casting the string to type regdatabase (see Section 8.19); however, this function will return NULL rather than throwing an error if the name is not found.
Version history 1
  1. PG 18 → 19added

Definition snapshot: 2026-09-14T13:14:25.684213+00:00@99e6866c · English manual source