Re: oid2name : add objects file path

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025, at 5:55 AM, David Bidoc wrote:
> This is my first patch to the project.
>

Welcome to Postgres community.

> I noticed that the oid2name tool does not display the file path of objects.
>
> I thought this could be interesting and that others might find it
> useful, so I made a little patch to display the full path of objects
> retrieved by the oid2name tool. These will be displayed using the -x
> --extended option.
>

I didn't review your patch in details but I noticed 2 things that should be
improved:

1. The database query is wrong because it is considering that all databases are
in the default tablespace. If you create a database in a different tablespace
you will notice the mistake.

2. I suggest that you change one of the examples (maybe the last one) to
illustrate this feature.

Since you are in this area, you could create a separate patch for show the
tablespace location (-s option). Use pg_tablespace_location function.

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