To answer at least part of my own question:
SELECT oid FROM pg_class WHERE relname = 'cust';
apparently gives the tableoid.
On Friday 30 September 2005 06:25 am, Terry Lee Tucker saith:
> List,
>
> I have a temporary table and I need to get the tableoid from the interface.
> The table may not have any data in it so something like SELECT tableoid
> FROM tmp_table LIMIT 1, returns zero when there is no data in the table. I
> know that you can get information like this from the system catalogs but
> don't know how to join them to accomplish this. Is there a diagram
> available which shows the system catalog relationships and does anyone have
> a simple sql string that will give me the tableoid of a given table.
>
> TIA
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