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Re: Thanks, naming conventions, and count()

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, Casey Lyon <casey@earthcars.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-04-30T15:56:38Z
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> It might be worth making a simple utility (could be based on Bryan
> White's pg_check) to grovel through the raw pg_class bits and extract
> relfilenode info the hard way.  You'd only need it in certain disaster
> scenarios, but when you did need it you'd need it bad.
> 
> So far we have not seen a report of a situation where this seemed to be
> useful, so I'm not that excited about having it... WAL dump and
> interrogation utilities are higher on my want list.

OK, updated TODO item:

	* Add table name mapping for numeric file names

I removed the symlink mention, and I agree it is low priority. No one is
really asking for it.

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