Re: What are these files? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Larry Rosenman
Subject Re: What are these files?
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Msg-id D1D2D51E3BE3FC4E98598248901F7594012698A2@ausmail2k4.aus.pervasive.com
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In response to What are these files?  (Chris Hoover <revoohc@gmail.com>)
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Chris Hoover wrote:
> I have some file in my database directories that I can not find an
> purpose to.
>
> What I have been doing is trying to relate each file in my <db
> path>/base/<oid>/  to the actual name (ie tablea, indexb, etc...),
> and I have ran into files that are not in the pg_class table.  I am
> not sure where else to look for the purpose of these files.  Can
> anyone give me some suggestions?  Files appear to be oids in name,
> and some of them are split into multiple files (i.e.2109357800,
> 2109357800.1, 2109357800.2, 2109357800.3, 2109357800.4).
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Chris
>
> PG 7.3.4

 contrib/oid2name is what you need.
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Larry Rosenman
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