Re: [HACKERS] System Catalogs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] System Catalogs
Date
Msg-id 199905150854.EAA11217@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to System Catalogs  (Chris Bitmead <chris.bitmead@bigfoot.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
> 
> I want to try and really really understand the system catalogs as a
> prelude to figuring out how to make some enhancements.
> 
> I've read everything in the doco about them (which isn't much that I can
> see). Is there anything else? Does it say somewhere what all the fields
> mean? I'm particularly interested in the basic catalogs - classes,
> attributes, types etc.

See src/include/catalog.  There is a doc/src/graphics/catalog.gif, and
contrib/pginterface has a utility to find all joins between tables using
oids.


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