On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 01:45:12PM +0000, PG Doc comments form wrote:
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> Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/ddl-partitioning.html
> Description:
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> 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.
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Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> https://momjian.us
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
index 7701d8000f..e0ffb020bf 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
@@ -4105,7 +4105,8 @@ ALTER INDEX measurement_city_id_logdate_key
<para>
Since a partition hierarchy consisting of the partitioned table and its
- partitions is still an inheritance hierarchy, all the normal rules of
+ partitions is still an inheritance hierarchy,
+ <structfield>tableoid</structfield> and all the normal rules of
inheritance apply as described in <xref linkend="ddl-inherit"/>, with
a few exceptions:
