The same problem, missing oid's, occurs with several other system views as well. If you have to do some serious work, it's always pg_class you need.

oid's in these views would be nice, but only if all the system views have the oid's of the underlaying objects. In case of pg_tables you need the oid's of the schema and the table.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/views-overview.html

Regards,
Frank


Op 16 jun 2009, om 16:52 heeft Magnus Hagander het volgende geschreven:

Actually, is there any particular reason why we can't *add* that column
to the view in a future version? We certainly shouldn't go modify it,
but adding to it should be pretty safe, no?

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Frank Heikens wrote:
Agreed.

Personally I wouldn't use pg_tables at all because of the missing oid. Would be nice to have in this view, but it can't be changed because it's
a system-view. pg_class would do the job.

Regards,
Frank


Op 16 jun 2009, om 16:12 heeft Tom Lane het volgende geschreven:

Frank Heikens <frankheik...@mac.com> writes:
   pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size(schemaname || '.' || tablename))

At some point you're going to wish you'd used quote_ident() here.

           regards, tom lane

PS: Personally I prefer to rely on pg_relation_size(oid), but to use
that you need to be looking directly at pg_class, not at pg_tables
which doesn't expose the oid column :-(

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