Re: make \d pg_toast.foo show its indices ; and, \d toast show its main table

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>
Cc: Rafia Sabih <rafia(dot)pghackers(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: make \d pg_toast.foo show its indices ; and, \d toast show its main table
Date: 2019-05-06 16:33:59
Message-ID: 20190506163359.GA29291@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2019-May-06, Justin Pryzby wrote:

> Perhaps ... but TOAST is an implementation detail, and I think it should rarely
> be important to know the toast table for a given table.

I'm with Andres -- while it's admittedly a rare need, it is a real one.

Sometimes I wish for \d++ which would display internal details too obscure
to show in the regular \d+, such as the toast table name.

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Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
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