> tableoid might be an exception to > this, but it does not really seem like a useful column to index, > giving it would be indexing the same value for each record in the > table.
Unless you're using inheritance - then tableoid may vary. That's the case I'm interested in.
-- get all animals that are persons select ... from animal where tableoid in (select get_inherited_tables('person'::regclass);
-- get all animals that are not persons select ... from animal where tableoid not in (select get_inherited_tables('person'::regclass);
That's a great idea. I'll try it!
Just be careful around search_paths and your use of regclass. In this case, if "animal" was not in the first schema in search_path, but someone created another table called "person" that was in the first schema listed in search_path, then the query would not do what you want. You might want to consider prefixing the input parameter into get_inherited_tables with the schema name too.
