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FUNCTIONS / SYSTEM INFORMATION FUNCTIONS AND OPERATORS

Translates a textual role name to its OID.

Signatures & examples

to_regrole ( text ) → regrole
Translates a textual role name to its OID. A similar result is obtained by casting the string to type regrole (see Section 8.19); however, this function will return NULL rather than throwing an error if the name is not found.
Version history 3
  1. PG 15 → 16changed
  2. PG 12 → 13changed
  3. PG 9.4 → 9.5added

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