Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping

From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping
Date: 2000-01-25 10:38:26
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.02A.10001251135570.11899-100000@Val.DoCS.UU.SE
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On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> New file name will not be just oid. Too hard to administer.

How exactly does this play into administration? You don't actually do a cp
/usr/local/pgsql/data/base/testdb/mytable /some/where to back up? ;)

What did the Unix kernel programmers think when they first introduced
inodes? The wrote the readdir() library call. We have that too, it's
called pg_class.

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