Re: anyone using oid2name?

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:18:01AM -0800, Jeff Janes wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>     pgsql-hackers are discussing some housekeeping in contrib.
>
>     Is anyone using the oid2name tool?
>
>     Otherwise, we might deprecate and eventually remove it.
>
>
> I use it occasionally (but really dislike it) during testing and debugging, to
> help decipher what is going on.  It is a chain of information flow from strace
> to lsof to oid2name.
>
> I could probably use pg_class instead if I could ever remember what the
> difference was between oid and relfilenode.

The fact oid2name is called that, but references relfilenode, doesn't
help my memory either.  ;-)

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