> Stephan Szabo wrote: > > Switching to numbers for tables and databases helped a few things > > (including for tables making it easier to rollback a drop table). > > There's a contrib item, oid2name which will print out a mapping > > of directory number to database name. The readme gives an example > > of using it with du.
Ah, option number 3. I *thought* there had to be a good reason for it, but I couldn't imagine how it might help. (I still can't, but I'm not in any way an expert on DBMS programming.) Bruce Momjian wrote: > Uh, actually, only the readme in the current CVS has the example, 7.2.X > doesn't. I recommend getting oid2name from the snapshot/CVS and using > that. It has the newer readme and some changes to make the examples > display properly. Also see the new doc section for 7.3 on disk usage: > http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/diskusage.html Snagged, tested, and I'm happy. Thanks for the heads-up on where to find oid2name. -Kris WebHart Internet Linux Sysadmin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])