Re: Thanks, naming conventions, and count() - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Thanks, naming conventions, and count()
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Msg-id 200104301556.f3UFuch16129@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Thanks, naming conventions, and count()  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> It might be worth making a simple utility (could be based on Bryan
> White's pg_check) to grovel through the raw pg_class bits and extract
> relfilenode info the hard way.  You'd only need it in certain disaster
> scenarios, but when you did need it you'd need it bad.
> 
> So far we have not seen a report of a situation where this seemed to be
> useful, so I'm not that excited about having it... WAL dump and
> interrogation utilities are higher on my want list.

OK, updated TODO item:
* Add table name mapping for numeric file names

I removed the symlink mention, and I agree it is low priority. No one is
really asking for it.

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