| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Boulat Khakimov <boulat(at)inet-interactif(dot)com>, mpm(at)norwottuck(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Getting lengths of variable fields |
| Date: | 2001-03-06 01:24:25 |
| Message-ID: | 200103060124.UAA16729@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > Yup, indeed there is no such field in pg_class.
>
> Figure I can field this one in hopes of giving Tom more time for other
> things :)
>
> It's a system column, so it doesn't show up in the
> column list that you see from a select * query, but if you do a
> select oid from pg_class; you'll get it.
Let me use this system catalog discussion to announce the completion of
my database internals presentation at:
http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/internals.pdf
There is a system catalog diagram near the end.
Comments welcomed.
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