Re: how to find DB names in Postgres 7.1?

From: Randy Hall <rhall(at)greatbridge(dot)com>
To: Limin Liu <limin(at)pumpkinnet(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: how to find DB names in Postgres 7.1?
Date: 2001-03-06 22:10:02
Message-ID: 3AA5603A.14702393@greatbridge.com
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Look in the contrib directory for oid2name. This program will do what
you are looking for.

Limin Liu wrote:
>
> In Postgres 7.1, ${PGDATA}/base contains directories named by
> numbers!! They used to be database names. If a user created a db,
> can the db admin know what is that db name (without sending any query to
> db server)?
>
> I believe there must have some kind of mapping table exist. Can anyone
> tell me where to find it?
>
> Thanx for your help
>
> LM.Liu
>
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