Re: Thanks, naming conventions, and count()

> > 
> > doesn't this defeat the reasons for going to numerics?  is there a reason
> > why its such a difficult thing to do a SELECT oid on pg_database and
> > pg_class to get this information?  that's what I've been doing when I need
> > to know *shrug*
> 
> Yes, but you can't do that if you can't start the database or can't
> connect for some reason.  If people don't think it is worthwhile, we can
> delete the TODO item.
> 
> For example, when someone has trouble figuring out which directory is
> which database, they can just ls and look at the symlinks.  Seems like a
> nice feature.

I will admit we are not getting flooded with problems due to the new
numeric file names like I thought we would, so maybe it is not worth the
symlinks.

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