Re: Determining object name from filenode - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Michael Fuhr
Subject Re: Determining object name from filenode
Date
Msg-id 20060714014744.GA90562@winnie.fuhr.org
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In response to Determining object name from filenode  ("Benjamin Krajmalnik" <kraj@illumen.com>)
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 06:01:34PM -0600, Benjamin Krajmalnik wrote:
> Is there a way to determine the name of an object based on the filenode
> number?

Use contrib/oid2name or make queries using pg_database.oid and
pg_class.relfilenode.  For example, suppose you have the file
$PGDATA/base/16388/640244:

oid2name | grep 16388
oid2name -d dbname -f 640244

or

SELECT datname FROM pg_database WHERE oid = 16388;
\c dbname
SELECT relname FROM pg_class WHERE relfilenode = 640244;

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Michael Fuhr

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