Re: getting table name from partition - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: getting table name from partition
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Msg-id 20210803151226.GD3639@momjian.us
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In response to Re: getting table name from partition  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 06:24:17PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 01:45:12PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
> > The following documentation comment has been logged on the website:
> > 
> > Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/ddl-partitioning.html
> > Description:
> > 
> > I would like to add a sentence like this into the description of
> > partitions:
> > 
> > You receive the name of the partition table data is from using
> > tableoid::regclass as column name in the select.
> > 
> > to tell the option of getting "real" tablename, eg when partitions are based
> > on locality.
> 
> We already have this sentence in the partition docs:
> 
>     Since a partition hierarchy consisting of the partitioned table
>     and its partitions is still an inheritance hierarchy, all the normal
>     rules of inheritance apply as described in Section 5.10, with a few exceptions:
> 
> but it doesn't make it clear that tableoid, which is mentioned in
> Section 5.10 also works, so here is a patch to add a mention of
> tableoid.

Patch applied back to PG 10, where the partition syntax was added.

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