Re: getting table name from partition

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.

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