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.
thanks a lot,
Huaxin
On 11/7/05, Paresh Bafna <paresh@it.iitb.ac.in> wrote:
> Actually I want to do this from inside the postgres code i.e. I want to
> get table name and tuple values from OID of corresponding table OID and
> tuple OID.
> Is there any built in function in postgres code to do this?
>
> Paresh
>
> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>
> > Try
> >
> > SELECT 12341234::regclass;
> >
> > Where 12341234 is the OID of a table.
> >
> > Otherwise try:
> >
> > SELECT tableoid, * FROM table;
> >
> > To get the tableoid on each row.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > Paresh Bafna wrote:
> >
> >> Is there any way to retrieve table name and/or tuple values from OID of
> >> table/tuple?
> >>
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