Re: [HACKERS] System Catalogs
Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Chris Bitmead <chris.bitmead@bigfoot.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@hub.org
Date: 1999-05-15T08:54:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > I want to try and really really understand the system catalogs as a > prelude to figuring out how to make some enhancements. > > I've read everything in the doco about them (which isn't much that I can > see). Is there anything else? Does it say somewhere what all the fields > mean? I'm particularly interested in the basic catalogs - classes, > attributes, types etc. See src/include/catalog. There is a doc/src/graphics/catalog.gif, and contrib/pginterface has a utility to find all joins between tables using oids. -- Bruce Momjian | http://www.op.net/~candle maillist@candle.pha.pa.us | (610) 853-3000 + If your life is a hard drive, | 830 Blythe Avenue + Christ can be your backup. | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026