Re: Header meaning for pg_dump

Premsun Choltanwanich wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I had open the backup file of PostgreSQL created by pg_dump command. I found
> that pg_dump make a comment line as header for each module it backup. I try to
> understand the meaning of value contained on header for my sample header
>
> --
> -- TOC entry 1427 (class 1259 OID 1216127)
> -- Dependencies: 7
> -- Name: t_option; Type: TABLE; Schema: public; Owner: postgres; Tablespace:
> --
> Could you please advise me for.... What does they mean? and What the value used
> for?

I'm not sure that they're used for anything in that form - that's just
documenting internal details.

TOC - Table Of Contents
OID - Object IDentifier - as used by PG to reference tables,functions etc.
Dependencies - iirc is the number of references to this table (e.g.
foreign keys).
The others explain themselves.

Check the manual section on system tables, and perhaps try:
SELECT OID,* FROM pg_class WHERE relname='t_option'

HTH
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd