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Re:March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened by e12e on Saturday March 25, 2023 @10:21AM (#35302896)
> SELECT * FROM pg_class WHERE oid = 'pg_class'::regclass;

This selects every column (*) from every table (ObjectID is of type regclass)?

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Re:March 20 ChatGPT outage: Here’s what happened by anarazel on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:15AM (#35303467)
Sorry, I should have used something more standard - but it was what I had ready...

It just selects every column from a single table, pg_class. Which is where postgres stores information about relations that exist in the current database.

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