Re: a very naive question about table names in Postgres

On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 at 16:25, Paul Jungwirth <pj@illuminatedcomputing.com>
wrote:

> On 12/31/21 12:27 PM, Martin Mueller wrote:
> > I know that on my Mac the tables are  kept in the  data directory
> > /Users/martinmueller/Library/Application Support/Postgres/var-13.  If I
> > go there I see that internally the tables have numbers.  Somewhere in
> > the system there must be a table that maps the name I gave to table X
> > to the numerical  inside the database.
> >
> > Where is that mapping and how can I query it?  On what page of the
> > documentation do I find the answer?
>
> Dear Prof. Mueller,
>
>

Everything you ever wanted to know is here

PostgreSQL: Documentation: 14: Chapter 52. System Catalogs
<https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/catalogs.html>

Enjoy the journey

Dave