Re: FW: Duplicate oids!

Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 09:43:19AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Actually, if you don't mind grabbing a copy of pg_filedump --- see
> >> http://sources.redhat.com/rhdb/tools.html
> 
> > Has this been updated for 7.3?  Last time I looked it only did 7.2, and
> > the site shows an old date.  If it hasn't, are there plans to update it
> > sometime soon?  It would be very useful to me right now...
> 
> AFAIK it has not been updated yet.  Patrick, do you have any near-term
> plans to do so?  If not, perhaps Alvaro would like to do the legwork ;-)

Yes, it's on my list of things to do.   Look for an updated version
by middle of the week (once all the RHDB 2.1 work is finished).
> I believe it should be possible to make a single version of pg_filedump
> that understands both the 7.2 and 7.3 page layouts (the version field in
> the page header would work for telling what you're looking at)

Correct.  The tool will be updated to understand the different
page layouts/formats.  Two tools would be a pain...

Cheers,
Patrick
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Patrick Macdonald
Red Hat Database Development