From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Cc: adam@piggz.fsnet.co.uk
Subject: Re: libpq:Find Table Name
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:48:08 -0400
Message-ID: <1241.1058194088@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F12981B.CDE42A4A@rodos.fzk.de>
References: <3F12981B.CDE42A4A@rodos.fzk.de>
Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de> writes:
>> Has anyone any suggestions on how i can achieve getting the table name
>> for a
>> filed in a result without having to parse the sql statement (which i
>> dont
>> think wold be easy).
>>
> I very much doubt there is such thing, because the result may come from
> a complex join or a function.
There is support for this in PG 7.4, in the form of providing the table
OID for a column (when it's determinable).
regards, tom lane
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