[postgresql] How to search a specific value in all tables (PostgreSQL)?

And if someone think it could help. Here is @Daniel Vérité's function, with another param that accept names of columns that can be used in search. This way it decrease the time of processing. At least in my test it reduced a lot.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION search_columns(
    needle text,
    haystack_columns name[] default '{}',
    haystack_tables name[] default '{}',
    haystack_schema name[] default '{public}'
)
RETURNS table(schemaname text, tablename text, columnname text, rowctid text)
AS $$
begin
  FOR schemaname,tablename,columnname IN
      SELECT c.table_schema,c.table_name,c.column_name
      FROM information_schema.columns c
      JOIN information_schema.tables t ON
        (t.table_name=c.table_name AND t.table_schema=c.table_schema)
      WHERE (c.table_name=ANY(haystack_tables) OR haystack_tables='{}')
        AND c.table_schema=ANY(haystack_schema)
        AND (c.column_name=ANY(haystack_columns) OR haystack_columns='{}')
        AND t.table_type='BASE TABLE'
  LOOP
    EXECUTE format('SELECT ctid FROM %I.%I WHERE cast(%I as text)=%L',
       schemaname,
       tablename,
       columnname,
       needle
    ) INTO rowctid;
    IF rowctid is not null THEN
      RETURN NEXT;
    END IF;
 END LOOP;
END;
$$ language plpgsql;

Bellow is an example of usage of the search_function created above.

SELECT * FROM search_columns('86192700'
    , array(SELECT DISTINCT a.column_name::name FROM information_schema.columns AS a
            INNER JOIN information_schema.tables as b ON (b.table_catalog = a.table_catalog AND b.table_schema = a.table_schema AND b.table_name = a.table_name)
        WHERE 
            a.column_name iLIKE '%cep%' 
            AND b.table_type = 'BASE TABLE'
            AND b.table_schema = 'public'
    )

    , array(SELECT b.table_name::name FROM information_schema.columns AS a
            INNER JOIN information_schema.tables as b ON (b.table_catalog = a.table_catalog AND b.table_schema = a.table_schema AND b.table_name = a.table_name)
        WHERE 
            a.column_name iLIKE '%cep%' 
            AND b.table_type = 'BASE TABLE'
            AND b.table_schema = 'public')
);

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