From: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 07:26:20 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: doc: Improve tableoid description
X-Git-Tag: REL_14_BETA1~1242
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a47834db0fb70256e676862f1d96374a9e114d82;p=thirdparty%2Fpostgresql.git

doc: Improve tableoid description

Mention that it's useful for determining table names for partitioned
tables as well as for those in inheritance hierarchies.

Author: Ian Lawrence Barwick <barwick@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Bapat <ashutosh.bapat.oss@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/CAB8KJ=gFmBXP=P9htziOj+WM5PDAK4qc7iGQta+8kUh306kQnw@mail.gmail.com
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
index 3a2cfbd3011..c12a32c8c7f 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ddl.sgml
@@ -1144,7 +1144,8 @@ CREATE TABLE circles (
 
      <para>
       The OID of the table containing this row.  This column is
-      particularly handy for queries that select from inheritance
+      particularly handy for queries that select from partitioned
+      tables (see <xref linkend="ddl-partitioning"/>) or inheritance
       hierarchies (see <xref linkend="ddl-inherit"/>), since without it,
       it's difficult to tell which individual table a row came from.  The
       <structfield>tableoid</structfield> can be joined against the