Re: find table name - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From greg@turnstep.com
Subject Re: find table name
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Msg-id 33c87e018d223ce377b71dfee30dc871@biglumber.com
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In response to find table name  (Ashok Chauhan <ashok@kalculate.com>)
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> In postgresql  all databases are stored in /data/base directory in
> numbers form and all the related tables with that database are stored in
> that directory again in numbers form.
> so there is any command or query to see the original table names.
> just like:-  select * from pg_stat_database; for databases.

You can find the mapping between the "numbers" on disk and the tables by
looking at the "relfilenode", "relname" and "relkind" columns of the
pg_class table. However, it is best to not mess with those files at
all. What are you trying to do?

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
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