Re: what is in ../data/base ??

From: Frank Bax <fbax(at)sympatico(dot)ca>
To: bk226157(at)skynet(dot)be (pierre)
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: what is in ../data/base ??
Date: 2002-01-08 17:08:23
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Try "select oid,* from pg_database" The numeric filenames are the oid.

I don't know how to do the same for tables.

Frank

At 10:37 AM 1/1/02 -0800, pierre wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am currently using 7.1.3 on an HPUX-11.00
>When I do a ls -al to look at the ../data/base directory here is what i see:
>
>postgres>ls -al
>total 52
>drwx------ 7 postgres users 1024 Jan 1 18:05 .
>drwx------ 5 postgres sys 1024 Jan 1 17:46 ..
>drwx------ 2 postgres users 2048 Dec 17 21:40 1
>drwx------ 2 postgres users 3072 Dec 31 14:56 184847
>drwx------ 2 postgres users 2048 Dec 17 21:34 18719
>drwx------ 2 postgres users 7168 Dec 17 22:51 58443
>drwx------ 2 postgres users 10240 Jan 1 17:57 5886825
>postgres>pwd
>/db1240/data/base
>postgres>
>
>I don't see the name of the databases I have created !!
>Idem inside a database directory. I don't see the name of the tables &
index !
>Only numbers !
>
>Is it so since 7.1.3 ? It was not the case with 7.0.2 !
>Any light on this ?? Have I done something wrong when installing 7.1.3 ?
>
>Thanks.
>Pierre.
>
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