| From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Rafia Sabih <rafia(dot)pghackers(at)gmail(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: make \d pg_toast.foo show its indices |
| Date: | 2019-05-06 16:26:31 |
| Message-ID: | 20190506162631.pjn3h5ppsbig4mx7@alap3.anarazel.de |
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Hi,
On 2019-05-06 11:58:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Not sure though --- generally, if you're looking at a specific
> toast table, you already know which table is its parent. But
> maybe confirmation is a good thing.
I'm not convinced by that. I've certainly many a time wrote queries
against pg_class to figure out which relation a toast table belongs
to. E.g. after looking at the largest relations in the system, looking
at pg_stat_*_tables, after seeing an error in the logs, etc.
> That seems off-topic for this thread though. I agree with the
> stated premise that \d on a toast table should show all the same
> information \d on a regular table would.
+1
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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