Re: Getting table name/tuple from OID

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:37:07AM -0500, huaxin zhang wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am interested in the answer as well -- how to get a table name (or
> an operator name) from an OID.  the parser must know how to do this,
> but the segment of code is hard to locate.

For the purposes of error messages, RelationGetRelationName() does what
you want. Otherwise maybe RelationIdGetRelation(Oid relationId). Check
out utils/cache/relcache.c for a variety of functions to extract basic
data like this.

Hope this helps,
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