From: | Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com> |
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To: | Mimiko <vbvbrj(at)gmail(dot)com>, Postgresql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: database folder name and tables filenames |
Date: | 2017-02-15 00:47:21 |
Message-ID: | fce721c5-bcd0-97e0-209e-cc4f24d148c7@aklaver.com |
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On 02/14/2017 09:47 AM, Mimiko wrote:
> On 14.02.2017 17:30, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>>> Is there a way to change postgres behavior to name database folders by
>>> the database name? And table files in them by table's name? And not
>>> using OIDs.
>>
>> No.
>>
>> Is there a particular problem you are trying to solve?
>
> No, there is not a problem. Its a convenience to visually view databases
> and tables with theirs name and know what the size they occupy with
> using queries of pg_catalog, like there is in mysql.
Take look at:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/functions-admin.html#FUNCTIONS-ADMIN-DBOBJECT
So as example:
test=# select pg_size_pretty(pg_database_size('test'));
pg_size_pretty
----------------
8464 kB
(1 row)
>
>
> On 14.02.2017 17:34, Tom Lane wrote:
>> It used to work like that, decades ago, and it caused enormous problems
>> during table/database renames. We're not going back.
>
> So this is the culprit. Isn't there any option to use names? Even when
> compiling?
>
>
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Adrian Klaver
adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com
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