On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:25:37PM +0200, Felix Kater wrote: > can I use a given tableoid (instead of the tablename) to select > columns from that table somehow? > > SELECT * FROM ??tableoid?? <snip> > So, I worked around that by peforming two queries: The first to retrieve > the table's name from pg_class via its OID, the second to select the > wanted columns from that table using the table's name as usual. > > Can I do it in one go using the table??s OID?
You could possibly do this with a SRF; you'd have to grab the name of the table and then build a dynamic query off of that. If you cast the oid to regclass you'll get the name of the table, though you should probably query pg_class and pg_namespace to build a fully-qualified table name (schemaname.tablename). -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
