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To: "Gordon Ross" <G.Ross@ccw.gov.uk>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Determining Inheritance 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Gordon Ross" <G.Ross@ccw.gov.uk>
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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"Gordon Ross" <G.Ross@ccw.gov.uk> writes:
> Is there any way to determine which table a row belows to, if I do a
> search on the top level table:

Look at the built-in column "tableoid".  You can join this to
pg_class.oid to retrieve the table name.

			regards, tom lane