From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Joseph Shraibman <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net> |
Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: pg_log |
Date: | 2001-01-17 03:53:04 |
Message-ID: | 200101170353.WAA20015@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > In 7.1 it'll have a numeric filename ($PGDATA/global/1269, actually)
> > which should reduce the tendency for DBAs to assume there's nothing
> > important in it. I regard this as one of the major advantages of
> > having switched to numeric filenames ;-)
> >
> What are the others? Is the point of moving to numeric filenames to
> discourage people mucking with the files? With the current system for
> example if a backend coredumps I know to look for it in the directory of
> the database. But how will I know what that is in the future?
I am planning to write a utility to map file name/number to database
objects, hopefully for 7.1.
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