Re: How access table by tableoid

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??
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> 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).
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