Re: Be more clear what names can be used for tables with "CREATE TABLE"? - Mailing list pgsql-docs

On Sat, 2021-10-30 at 11:08 +0000, Daniel Westermann (DWE) wrote:
> HI all,
> 
> in the documentation for CREATE TABLE we have this sentence:
> 
> "The name of the table must be distinct from the name of any other table, sequence, index, view, or foreign table in
thesame schema."
 
> 
> At least materialized views are missing:
> 
> Domains are also missing:
> 
> ... but that maybe is covered by the next paragraph?
> 
> "CREATE TABLE also automatically creates a data type that represents the composite type corresponding to one row of
thetable.
 
> Therefore, tables cannot have the same name as any existing data type in the same schema."

Technically speaking, it is "objects stored in pg_class".

Perhaps we can refer to the documentation of "pg_class", which will in turn refer you to "relkind".

Yours,
Laurenz Albe