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Update info about relkind and pg_type entries for composite-types patch.

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Tom Lane 2002-08-28 15:02:55 +00:00
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doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml
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<!--
Documentation of the system catalogs, directed toward PostgreSQL developers
$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml,v 2.54 2002/08/24 15:00:45 tgl Exp $
$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/catalogs.sgml,v 2.55 2002/08/28 15:02:55 tgl Exp $
-->
<chapter id="catalogs">
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<title>pg_class</title>
<para>
<structname>pg_class</structname> catalogs tables and mostly
<structname>pg_class</structname> catalogs tables and most
everything else that has columns or is otherwise similar to a
table. This includes indexes (but see also
<structname>pg_index</structname>), sequences, views, and some
kinds of special relation. Below, when we mean all of these
kinds of special relation; see <structfield>relkind</>.
. Below, when we mean all of these
kinds of objects we speak of <quote>relations</quote>. Not all
fields are meaningful for all relation types.
</para>
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<entry>relfilenode</entry>
<entry><type>oid</type></entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry>Name of the on-disk file of this relation</entry>
<entry>Name of the on-disk file of this relation; 0 if none</entry>
</row>
<row>
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<entry></entry>
<entry>
'r' = ordinary table, 'i' = index, 'S' = sequence, 'v' = view,
's' = special, 't' = secondary TOAST table
'c' = composite type, 's' = special, 't' = TOAST table
</entry>
</row>
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<para>
This catalog stores information about data types. Scalar types
(<quote>base types</>) are created with <command>CREATE TYPE</command>.
A complex type is also created for each table in the database, to
A complex type is automatically created for each table in the database, to
represent the row structure of the table. It is also possible to create
complex types with <command>CREATE TYPE AS</command>, and
derived types with <command>CREATE DOMAIN</command>.
</para>
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<entry>
If this is a complex type (see
<structfield>typtype</structfield>), then this field points to
the <structfield>pg_class</structfield> entry that defines the
corresponding table. A table could theoretically be used as a
composite data type, but this is only partly functional.
the <structname>pg_class</structname> entry that defines the
corresponding table. (For a free-standing composite type, the
<structname>pg_class</structname> entry doesn't really represent
a table, but it is needed anyway for the type's
<structname>pg_attribute</structname> entries to link to.)
Zero for non-complex types.
</entry>
</row>