Re: pg_attribute file in PostgreSQL 9.0

From: Steve Crawford <scrawford(at)pinpointresearch(dot)com>
To: Lukasz Brodziak <lukasz(dot)brodziak(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_attribute file in PostgreSQL 9.0
Date: 2012-03-07 14:35:03
Message-ID: 4F577217.3080204@pinpointresearch.com
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On 03/07/2012 05:14 AM, Lukasz Brodziak wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question regarding pg_attribute. In which file it is stored
> because the relfilenode for it shows 0 and file 1249 isn't present in
> the folder.
>
select pg_relation_filepath('pg_attribute');

From the docs, relfilenode is:
"Name of the on-disk file of this relation; zero means this is a
"mapped" relation whose disk file name is determined by low-level state"

However the meaning "mapped relation" and "low-level state" are
difficult to divine from the docs. Go with the function.

Cheers,
Steve

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