Re: anyone using oid2name?

From: Jeff Janes <jeff(dot)janes(at)gmail(dot)com>
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 17:18:01
Message-ID: CAMkU=1ycwO3PEYyBgK8HHUnzX5gpXp4wQYC6Z+9canqLJ-nFEw@mail.gmail.com
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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.

Cheers,

Jeff

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