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Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] drop/rename table and transactions

Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru> — 1999-11-29T06:52:25Z

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> > I have to say that I'm going to change on-disk database/table/index
> > file names to _OID_! This is required by WAL because of inside of
> > log records there will be just database/table/index oids, not names,
> > and after crash recovery will not be able to read pg_class to get
> > database/table/index name using oid ...
> 
> Wow, that is a major pain.  Anyone else think so?

Why it's so painful? 
We can write utility to construct database dir with table names
symlinked to real table files -:)
Actually, I don't understand 
for what would you need to know what is what, (c) -:)

> Using oid's instead of names may give us some ability to fix some other
> bugs, though.

Yes.

Vadim