Re: anyone using oid2name?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: anyone using oid2name?
Date: 2014-12-12 14:48:22
Message-ID: 20141212144822.GB19833@momjian.us
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:42:48AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On 12/12/14 9:25 AM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:18:53AM -0500, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> pgsql-hackers are discussing some housekeeping in contrib.
> >>
> >> Is anyone using the oid2name tool?
> >>
> >> Otherwise, we might deprecate and eventually remove it.
> >
> > Uh, if we remove it, what tool does someone use from the command-line to
> > find the objects represented by files?
>
> I don't know. I want to find out what people are using it for.
>
> One option would be to tweak some psql backslash commands to show the
> information. Most of the functionality is already there.

True. It might be possible to just document a psql -c command to do it.

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