Re: what is in ../data/base ??

From: Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>
To: bk226157(at)skynet(dot)be (pierre)
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: what is in ../data/base ??
Date: 2002-01-08 19:39:12
Message-ID: m3pu4kbpjz.fsf@varsoon.denali.to
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bk226157(at)skynet(dot)be (pierre) writes:

> I don't see the name of the databases I have created !!
> Idem inside a database directory. I don't see the name of the tables & index !
> Only numbers !

Yes, this was changed in 7.1 to fix a couple of potential problems.
The numbers are OIDs. You can use the 'oid2name' tool in the contrib/
directory to find out the name for a given number.

> Is it so since 7.1.3 ? It was not the case with 7.0.2 !
> Any light on this ?? Have I done something wrong when installing 7.1.3 ?

Nope, nothing wrong. ;)

-Doug
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