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 :) ------------- Hannu