diff --git a/pkg/sql/logictest/testdata/logic_test/pgoidtype b/pkg/sql/logictest/testdata/logic_test/pgoidtype
index ff7d0574f06c..2cbb6015019a 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/logictest/testdata/logic_test/pgoidtype
+++ b/pkg/sql/logictest/testdata/logic_test/pgoidtype
@@ -690,3 +690,23 @@ JOIN pg_namespace n ON c.relnamespace = n.oid
 WHERE c.oid='pg_type'::regclass
 ----
 pg_type  pg_type  pg_catalog
+
+# Regression test for #118273 - set the name of a non-T_oid oid type to '-' when
+# the value is zero.
+subtest zero_oid
+
+statement ok
+CREATE TABLE t118273 (x REGROLE PRIMARY KEY, y REGROLE);
+INSERT INTO t118273 VALUES (0, 0);
+
+skipif config local-mixed-23.1 local-mixed-23.2
+query TT
+SELECT * FROM t118273;
+----
+-  -
+
+skipif config local-mixed-23.1 local-mixed-23.2
+query TT
+SELECT 0::REGROLE, 0::REGROLE::TEXT;
+----
+-  -
diff --git a/pkg/sql/pg_catalog.go b/pkg/sql/pg_catalog.go
index 15dc5f8ba59d..7dfdf5391ec6 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/pg_catalog.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/pg_catalog.go
@@ -2148,9 +2148,9 @@ https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/catalog-pg-language.html`,
 				h.UserOid(username.AdminRoleName()), // lanowner
 				isPl,                                // lanispl
 				isTrusted,                           // lanpltrusted
-				tree.WrapAsZeroOid(types.Oid),       // lanplcallfoid
-				tree.WrapAsZeroOid(types.Oid),       // laninline
-				tree.WrapAsZeroOid(types.Oid),       // lanvalidator
+				tree.NewDOid(tree.UnknownOidValue),  // lanplcallfoid
+				tree.NewDOid(tree.UnknownOidValue),  // laninline
+				tree.NewDOid(tree.UnknownOidValue),  // lanvalidator
 				tree.DNull,                          // lanacl
 			); err != nil {
 				return err
diff --git a/pkg/sql/pgwire/types.go b/pkg/sql/pgwire/types.go
index 4fe6de430072..dbe3b6347540 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/pgwire/types.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/pgwire/types.go
@@ -264,7 +264,9 @@ func writeTextDatumNotNull(
 		b.writeFromFmtCtx(b.textFormatter)
 
 	case *tree.DOid:
-		b.writeLengthPrefixedDatum(v)
+		// OIDs have a special case for the "unknown" (zero) oid.
+		b.textFormatter.FormatNode(v)
+		b.writeFromFmtCtx(b.textFormatter)
 
 	case *tree.DEnum:
 		// Enums are serialized with their logical representation.
diff --git a/pkg/sql/randgen/datum.go b/pkg/sql/randgen/datum.go
index 818350f14ad6..8a12b65734c6 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/randgen/datum.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/randgen/datum.go
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ func RandDatumWithNullChance(
 		}
 		return d
 	case types.OidFamily:
-		return tree.NewDOid(oid.Oid(rng.Uint32()))
+		return tree.NewDOidWithType(oid.Oid(rng.Uint32()), typ)
 	case types.UnknownFamily:
 		return tree.DNull
 	case types.ArrayFamily:
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ func RandDatumSimple(rng *rand.Rand, typ *types.T) tree.Datum {
 	case types.JsonFamily:
 		datum = tree.NewDJSON(randJSONSimple(rng))
 	case types.OidFamily:
-		datum = tree.NewDOid(oid.Oid(rng.Intn(simpleRange)))
+		datum = tree.NewDOidWithType(oid.Oid(rng.Intn(simpleRange)), typ)
 	case types.StringFamily:
 		datum = tree.NewDString(randStringSimple(rng))
 	case types.TimeFamily:
diff --git a/pkg/sql/randgen/schema.go b/pkg/sql/randgen/schema.go
index f0f0d197721a..7a87246958a5 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/randgen/schema.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/randgen/schema.go
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ func generateInsertStmtVals(rng *rand.Rand, colTypes []*types.T, nullable []bool
 		if colTypes[j] == types.RegType {
 			// RandDatum is naive to the constraint that a RegType < len(types.OidToType),
 			// at least before linking and user defined types are added.
-			d = tree.NewDOid(oid.Oid(rng.Intn(len(types.OidToType))))
+			d = tree.NewDOidWithType(oid.Oid(rng.Intn(len(types.OidToType))), types.RegType)
 		}
 		if d == nil {
 			d = RandDatum(rng, colTypes[j], nullable[j])
diff --git a/pkg/sql/sem/eval/cast.go b/pkg/sql/sem/eval/cast.go
index 4befc0dfcc71..ffe71f5b843a 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/sem/eval/cast.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/sem/eval/cast.go
@@ -495,7 +495,8 @@ func performCastWithoutPrecisionTruncation(
 				false, /* skipHexPrefix */
 			)
 		case *tree.DOid:
-			s = t.String()
+			// The "unknown" oid has special handling.
+			s = tree.AsStringWithFlags(t, tree.FmtPgwireText)
 		case *tree.DJSON:
 			s = t.JSON.String()
 		case *tree.DTSQuery:
@@ -953,9 +954,6 @@ func performCastWithoutPrecisionTruncation(
 		case *tree.DInt:
 			return performIntToOidCast(ctx, evalCtx.Planner, t, *v)
 		case *tree.DString:
-			if t.Oid() != oid.T_oid && string(*v) == tree.ZeroOidValue {
-				return tree.WrapAsZeroOid(t), nil
-			}
 			return ParseDOid(ctx, evalCtx, string(*v), t)
 		}
 	case types.TupleFamily:
@@ -1001,6 +999,10 @@ func performCastWithoutPrecisionTruncation(
 func performIntToOidCast(
 	ctx context.Context, res Planner, t *types.T, v tree.DInt,
 ) (tree.Datum, error) {
+	if v == 0 {
+		// This is the "unknown" oid.
+		return tree.NewDOidWithType(tree.UnknownOidValue, t), nil
+	}
 	// OIDs are always unsigned 32-bit integers. Some languages, like Java,
 	// store OIDs as signed 32-bit integers, so we implement the cast
 	// by converting to a uint32 first. This matches Postgres behavior.
@@ -1022,15 +1024,10 @@ func performIntToOidCast(
 				return nil, err
 			}
 			name = typ.PGName()
-		} else if v == 0 {
-			return tree.WrapAsZeroOid(t), nil
 		}
 		return tree.NewDOidWithTypeAndName(o, t, name), nil
 
 	case oid.T_regproc, oid.T_regprocedure:
-		if v == 0 {
-			return tree.WrapAsZeroOid(t), nil
-		}
 		name, _, err := res.ResolveFunctionByOID(ctx, oid.Oid(v))
 		if err != nil {
 			if errors.Is(err, tree.ErrRoutineUndefined) {
@@ -1041,10 +1038,6 @@ func performIntToOidCast(
 		return tree.NewDOidWithTypeAndName(o, t, name.Object()), nil
 
 	default:
-		if v == 0 {
-			return tree.WrapAsZeroOid(t), nil
-		}
-
 		dOid, errSafeToIgnore, err := res.ResolveOIDFromOID(ctx, t, tree.NewDOid(o))
 		if err != nil {
 			if !errSafeToIgnore {
diff --git a/pkg/sql/sem/eval/parse_doid.go b/pkg/sql/sem/eval/parse_doid.go
index 3083153db3ea..c5e9f43ff3f3 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/sem/eval/parse_doid.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/sem/eval/parse_doid.go
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ var pgSignatureRegexp = regexp.MustCompile(`^\s*([\w\."]+)\s*\((?:(?:\s*[\w"]+\s
 
 // ParseDOid parses and returns an Oid family datum.
 func ParseDOid(ctx context.Context, evalCtx *Context, s string, t *types.T) (*tree.DOid, error) {
+	if t.Oid() != oid.T_oid && s == tree.UnknownOidName {
+		return tree.NewDOidWithType(tree.UnknownOidValue, t), nil
+	}
+
 	// If it is an integer in string form, convert it as an int.
 	if _, err := tree.ParseDInt(strings.TrimSpace(s)); err == nil {
 		tmpOid, err := tree.ParseDOidAsInt(s)
diff --git a/pkg/sql/sem/tree/datum.go b/pkg/sql/sem/tree/datum.go
index e9d70472930e..e240b6089598 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/sem/tree/datum.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/sem/tree/datum.go
@@ -5587,6 +5587,15 @@ type DOid struct {
 	name string
 }
 
+const (
+	// UnknownOidName represents the 0 oid value as '-' for types other than T_oid
+	// in the oid family, which matches the Postgres representation.
+	UnknownOidName = "-"
+
+	// UnknownOidValue is the 0 (unknown) oid value.
+	UnknownOidValue = oid.Oid(0)
+)
+
 // IntToOid is a helper that turns a DInt into an oid.Oid and checks that the
 // value is in range.
 func IntToOid(i DInt) (oid.Oid, error) {
@@ -5609,22 +5618,20 @@ func MakeDOid(d oid.Oid, semanticType *types.T) DOid {
 
 // NewDOidWithType constructs a DOid with the given type and no name.
 func NewDOidWithType(d oid.Oid, semanticType *types.T) *DOid {
-	oid := DOid{Oid: d, semanticType: semanticType}
-	return &oid
+	return &DOid{Oid: d, semanticType: semanticType}
 }
 
 // NewDOidWithTypeAndName constructs a DOid with the given type and name.
 func NewDOidWithTypeAndName(d oid.Oid, semanticType *types.T, name string) *DOid {
-	oid := DOid{Oid: d, semanticType: semanticType, name: name}
-	return &oid
+	return &DOid{Oid: d, semanticType: semanticType, name: name}
 }
 
 // NewDOid is a helper routine to create a *DOid initialized from a DInt.
 func NewDOid(d oid.Oid) *DOid {
 	// TODO(yuzefovich): audit the callers of NewDOid to see whether any want to
 	// create a DOid with a semantic type different from types.Oid.
-	oid := MakeDOid(d, types.Oid)
-	return &oid
+	oidDatum := MakeDOid(d, types.Oid)
+	return &oidDatum
 }
 
 // AsDOid attempts to retrieve a DOid from an Expr, returning a DOid and
@@ -5715,7 +5722,10 @@ func (d *DOid) CompareError(ctx CompareContext, other Datum) (int, error) {
 
 // Format implements the Datum interface.
 func (d *DOid) Format(ctx *FmtCtx) {
-	if d.semanticType.Oid() == oid.T_oid || d.name == "" {
+	if ctx.HasFlags(FmtPgwireText) && d.semanticType.Oid() != oid.T_oid && d.Oid == UnknownOidValue {
+		// Special case for the "unknown" oid.
+		ctx.WriteString(UnknownOidName)
+	} else if d.semanticType.Oid() == oid.T_oid || d.name == "" {
 		ctx.Write(strconv.AppendUint(ctx.scratch[:0], uint64(d.Oid), 10))
 	} else if ctx.HasFlags(fmtDisambiguateDatumTypes) {
 		ctx.WriteString("crdb_internal.create_")
@@ -5799,10 +5809,6 @@ type DOidWrapper struct {
 	Oid     oid.Oid
 }
 
-// ZeroOidValue represents the 0 oid value as '-', which matches the Postgres
-// representation.
-const ZeroOidValue = "-"
-
 // wrapWithOid wraps a Datum with a custom Oid.
 func wrapWithOid(d Datum, oid oid.Oid) Datum {
 	switch v := d.(type) {
@@ -5826,16 +5832,6 @@ func wrapWithOid(d Datum, oid oid.Oid) Datum {
 	}
 }
 
-// WrapAsZeroOid wraps ZeroOidValue with a custom Oid.
-func WrapAsZeroOid(t *types.T) Datum {
-	tmpOid := NewDOid(0)
-	tmpOid.semanticType = t
-	if t.Oid() != oid.T_oid {
-		tmpOid.name = ZeroOidValue
-	}
-	return tmpOid
-}
-
 // UnwrapDOidWrapper exposes the wrapped datum from a *DOidWrapper.
 func UnwrapDOidWrapper(d Datum) Datum {
 	if w, ok := d.(*DOidWrapper); ok {
diff --git a/pkg/sql/sem/tree/parse_string.go b/pkg/sql/sem/tree/parse_string.go
index 36f6cd816c1b..05365ae46ecf 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/sem/tree/parse_string.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/sem/tree/parse_string.go
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ func ParseAndRequireString(
 	case types.JsonFamily:
 		d, err = ParseDJSON(s)
 	case types.OidFamily:
-		if t.Oid() != oid.T_oid && s == ZeroOidValue {
-			d = WrapAsZeroOid(t)
+		if t.Oid() != oid.T_oid && s == UnknownOidName {
+			d = NewDOidWithType(UnknownOidValue, t)
 		} else {
 			d, err = ParseDOidAsInt(s)
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/sql/sem/tree/testutils.go b/pkg/sql/sem/tree/testutils.go
index ff3907ae09a6..b3fc5642a58c 100644
--- a/pkg/sql/sem/tree/testutils.go
+++ b/pkg/sql/sem/tree/testutils.go
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ func SampleDatum(t *types.T) Datum {
 		j, _ := ParseDJSON(`{"a": "b"}`)
 		return j
 	case types.OidFamily:
-		return NewDOid(1009)
+		return NewDOidWithType(1009, t)
 	case types.PGLSNFamily:
 		return NewDPGLSN(0x1000000100)
 	case types.RefCursorFamily: