Re: using pg_tables and tablename in queries

"Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote in message
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> solarsail <solarsail(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> I have a large number of tables with a common naming convention
>
>> mytable001, mytable002, mytable003 ... mytable00n
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>> I would like to do a query across all of the tables, however I do not
>> know
>> all of the tables before hand, and I do not want to ( cant ) manually
>> generate a query like
>
>> select * from mytable001, mytable002, mytable003
>
>> I have a query that returns the names of the tables I want to query:
>
>> select tablename from pg_tables where tablename like 'mytable%'
>
> This looks to me like a situation in which you should rethink your
> data design. Those tables should all get merged into one big table,
> adding one extra column that reflects what you had been using to
> segregate the data into different tables.
>
> regards, tom lane

Sounds like a classic opportunity to use the postgreSQL inheritance model to
me....

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