Re: BUG #13034: Inconsistent attrelid field in pg_attribute table after adding columns to table.

alemagox@gmail.com wrote:

> SELECT format_type(a.atttypid, a.atttypmod)
>     FROM pg_attribute a
>         JOIN pg_class b ON (a.attrelid = b.relfilenode)
>         JOIN pg_namespace c ON (c.oid = b.relnamespace)
>     WHERE b.relname = 'test' AND c.nspname = 'ab' AND a.attname = 'id';

pg_attribute.attrelid must be joined to pg_class.oid, not relfilenode.
The relfilenode changes when the table is rewritten, which happens
during some forms of ALTER TABLE and others.

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