Re: [GENERAL] database folder name and tables filenames - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian Klaver
Subject Re: [GENERAL] database folder name and tables filenames
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Msg-id fce721c5-bcd0-97e0-209e-cc4f24d148c7@aklaver.com
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In response to Re: [GENERAL] database folder name and tables filenames  (Mimiko <vbvbrj@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 02/14/2017 09:47 AM, Mimiko wrote:
> On 14.02.2017 17:30, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>>> Is there a way to change postgres behavior to name database folders by
>>> the database name? And table files in them by table's name? And not
>>> using OIDs.
>>
>> No.
>>
>> Is there a particular problem you are trying to solve?
>
> No, there is not a problem. Its a convenience to visually view databases
> and tables with theirs name and know what the size they occupy with
> using queries of pg_catalog, like there is in mysql.

Take look at:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-ADMIN-DBOBJECT

So as example:

test=# select pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('test'));
 pg_size_pretty
----------------
 8464 kB
(1 row)


>
>
> On 14.02.2017 17:34, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It used to work like that, decades ago, and it caused enormous problems
>> during table/database renames.  We're not going back.
>
> So this is the culprit. Isn't there any option to use names? Even when
> compiling?
>
>


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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com


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