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

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Vadim Mikheev <vadim(at)krs(dot)ru>
Cc: Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com>, Lamar Owen <lamar(dot)owen(at)wgcr(dot)org>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh(at)mecomb(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, PostgreSQL Developers List <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] drop/rename table and transactions
Date: 1999-11-29 06:09:41
Message-ID: 199911290609.BAA07430@candle.pha.pa.us
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> 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?

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

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