Re: Database directory names

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Stephan Szabo wrote:
> > > Is this a feature, a bug, or a change related to some other critical
> > > functional capability of Postgres?  I haven't found anything else that
> > > meets our requirements here, and I can work around this annoyance if
> > > required- but I'd rather be lazy.  ;)
> >
> > 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.
>
> 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

My bad. I assumed that oid2name wasn't likely to have changed without
actually checking.