Re: Reverse Engineering

Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>
To: Peter Harvey <pharvey@codebydesign.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-08-23T06:59:14Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Harvey wrote:
> 
> Great progress today on my Reverse Engineering efforts. However; I have
> some comments.
> 
> 1. How can I switch databases (where I would normally use USE)?

You just open another connection .

If you mean psql jou do 
\c otherdatabasename

> 2. How do I determine the AccessMethod specified when an index was
> created?

you can parse it from pg_indexes.indexdef 

A great source for reverse engineering is source of pg_dump as it has 
to do all the "reverse engineering" in order to dump everything.

> 3. It would be cool if the catalog objects had comments on them in
> pg_description. Very few do.

Yes it would :)

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Hannu