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PostgreSQL: Table or View?

I'm doing some database exploration today and needed to find out if a collection of tables are all tables, or if some of them are views. By querying the information schema via the following: select table_name, table_type from information_schema.tables;, I learned more about each table and its type:

> select table_name, table_type from information_schema.tables;
              table_name               | table_type
---------------------------------------+------------
 cats                                  | BASE TABLE
 dog                                   | BASE TABLE
 dogs_and_cats                         | VIEW
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