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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Mike Martin <redtux1@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql <pgsql-sql@lists.postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Clarification on pg_attribute attrelid
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 10:12:44 -0400
Message-ID: <370678.1599833564@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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Mike Martin <redtux1@gmail.com> writes:
> Is it correct that calling attrelid::regclass will always return a
> non-schema qualified relation name

No.  regclassout will schema-qualify if the table isn't visible
according to the current search path.

I didn't check, but I think "not visible" would include the case
of "table is hidden by a temp table of the same name".

			regards, tom lane





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