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| author | Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> | 2020-11-21 08:26:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org> | 2020-11-21 08:26:20 +0100 |
| commit | a47834db0fb70256e676862f1d96374a9e114d82 (patch) | |
| tree | a943eaae4bb3a34f9a37e77ed94400b5d5d29bfb /doc/src | |
| parent | c71f9a094b32770dcd34b9ba4909435e34583747 (diff) | |
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doc: Improve tableoid description
Mention that it's useful for determining table names for partitioned
tables as well as for those in inheritance hierarchies.
Author: Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAB8KJ=gFmBXP=P9htziOj+WM5PDAK4qc7iGQta+8kUh306kQnw@mail.gmail.com
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml index 3a2cfbd3011..c12a32c8c7f 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml @@ -1144,7 +1144,8 @@ CREATE TABLE circles ( <para> The OID of the table containing this row. This column is - particularly handy for queries that select from inheritance + particularly handy for queries that select from partitioned + tables (see <xref linkend="ddl-partitioning"/>) or inheritance hierarchies (see <xref linkend="ddl-inherit"/>), since without it, it's difficult to tell which individual table a row came from. The <structfield>tableoid</structfield> can be joined against the |