On 2020-03-31 23:16, Bruce Momjian wrote:
doc:  add namespace column to pg_buffercache example query

Without the namespace, the table name could be ambiguous.

Reported-by: [email protected]

Discussion: 
https://postgr.es/m/[email protected]

Backpatch-through: 9.5

 <screen>
-regression=# SELECT c.relname, count(*) AS buffers
+regression=# SELECT n.nspname, c.relname, count(*) AS buffers
              FROM pg_buffercache b INNER JOIN pg_class c
              ON b.relfilenode = pg_relation_filenode(c.oid) AND
                 b.reldatabase IN (0, (SELECT oid FROM pg_database
                                       WHERE datname = current_database()))
-             GROUP BY c.relname
-             ORDER BY 2 DESC
+             JOIN pg_namespace n ON n.oid = c.relnamespace
+             GROUP BY n.nspname, c.relname
+             ORDER BY 3 DESC
              LIMIT 10;

Seems kind of confusing to use INNER JOIN once and then JOIN the other time.

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