Re: [HACKERS] DROP TABLE inside a transaction block

> > I will fight this to my death. :-)
> > I have cursed Ingres every time I needed to look at the Ingres data
> > directory to find out which tables match which files. Even a lookup
> > file is a pain. Right now, I can do ls -l to see which tables are
> > taking disk space.
>
> I had Ingres also, and found their scheme to be a royal pain. But that
> was really only because they had such a *bad* schema that I'd have to
> poke around forever to reconstruct a query which would give me file
> names and table names. And then I'd have to print that and compare
> that to the directories which were buried way down in a directory
> tree.
>
> But with Postgres, we can write a utility to do this for us, so I
> think that it isn't so much of an issue. In fact, perhaps we could
> have a backend function which could do this, so we could query the
> sizes directly.

Does not work if the table was accidentally deleted. Also requires the
backend to be running.

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