Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.02A.10001251135570.11899-100000@Val.DoCS.UU.SE
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> New file name will not be just oid.  Too hard to administer.

How exactly does this play into administration? You don't actually do a cp
/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/testdb/mytable /some/where to back up? ;)

What did the Unix kernel programmers think when they first introduced
inodes? The wrote the readdir() library call. We have that too, it's
called pg_class.

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