| From: | Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)postgres(dot)rocks> |
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| To: | Paul Jungwirth <pj(at)illuminatedcomputing(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: a very naive question about table names in Postgres |
| Date: | 2022-01-01 11:48:04 |
| Message-ID: | CADK3HHJyFFQaF0qP58nbCPmaUYxN86mvTRKBnPj6NzfAd1m5iw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 at 16:25, Paul Jungwirth <pj(at)illuminatedcomputing(dot)com>
wrote:
> On 12/31/21 12:27 PM, Martin Mueller wrote:
> > I know that on my Mac the tables are kept in the data directory
> > /Users/martinmueller/Library/Application Support/Postgres/var-13. If I
> > go there I see that internally the tables have numbers. Somewhere in
> > the system there must be a table that maps the name I gave to table X
> > to the numerical inside the database.
> >
> > Where is that mapping and how can I query it? On what page of the
> > documentation do I find the answer?
>
> Dear Prof. Mueller,
>
>
Everything you ever wanted to know is here
PostgreSQL: Documentation: 14: Chapter 52. System Catalogs
<https://www.postgresql.org/docs/14/catalogs.html>
Enjoy the journey
Dave
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