Re: anyone using oid2name?

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: anyone using oid2name?
Date: 2014-12-12 18:10:18
Message-ID: 20141212181018.GB14584@momjian.us
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On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:18:01AM -0800, Jeff Janes wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
>
> pgsql-hackers are discussing some housekeeping in contrib.
>
> Is anyone using the oid2name tool?
>
> Otherwise, we might deprecate and eventually remove it.
>
>
> I use it occasionally (but really dislike it) during testing and debugging, to
> help decipher what is going on.  It is a chain of information flow from strace
> to lsof to oid2name.
>
> I could probably use pg_class instead if I could ever remember what the
> difference was between oid and relfilenode.

The fact oid2name is called that, but references relfilenode, doesn't
help my memory either. ;-)

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