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Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping

Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@docs.uu.se>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41@DoCS.UU.SE>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-01-25T10:38:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> New file name will not be just oid.  Too hard to administer.

How exactly does this play into administration? You don't actually do a cp
/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/testdb/mytable /some/where to back up? ;)

What did the Unix kernel programmers think when they first introduced
inodes? The wrote the readdir() library call. We have that too, it's
called pg_class.

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