Inheritance question

Hi,

Just had a few quick questions on using inheritance

I have a table that inherits an id field from a parent table, is there a way
of determining which child table the row containing a particular id value
comes from?

Also, just out of interest, if one table inherits a field from another table
does the values contained within that field get stored on disk twice? (once
for the parent table and once for the child table).

Thanks for any help

Adam

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Adam Witney <awitney@sghms.ac.uk> writes:

I have a table that inherits an id field from a parent table, is there a way
of determining which child table the row containing a particular id value
comes from?

SELECT tableoid, ...other stuff... FROM parenttable WHERE ...

Typically you'd add a join to pg_class so that you can identify the
table by name instead of OID, but that's the basic idea.

Also, just out of interest, if one table inherits a field from another table
does the values contained within that field get stored on disk twice? (once
for the parent table and once for the child table).

No.

regards, tom lane