Re: Big 7.1 open items

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> But seriously, let me give some background.  I used Ingres, that used
> the VMS file system, but used strange sequential AAAF324 numbers for
> tables.  When someone deleted a table, or we were looking at what tables
> were using disk space, it was impossible to find the Ingres table names
> that went with the file.  There was a system table that showed it, but
> it was poorly documented, and if you deleted the table, there was no way
> to look on the tape to find out which file to restore.

Fair enough, but it seems to me that the answer is to expend some effort
on system admin support tools.  We could do a lot in that line with less
effort than trying to make a fundamentally mismatched filesystem
representation do what we need.
        regards, tom lane