Re: stupid question

Tom Lane wrote:

> rhkelly <rhkelly@myrealbox.com> writes:
>
>>Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>>>>1) the exact correspondence of the files and tables...
>>>>2) what are the safe filesystem operations...

>>>Not to be contrary, but why would you want to know this?
>
>>So that I can put the system into some 'partial/previous'
>>state in a manner which Postgress itself does not support
>
> You can't.  The connections between data files, xlog, and clog...

May I suggest we take two steps back...

I was simply inquiring about what I consider to be an indispensible
element of documentation for *any* application - i.e., the content
and format of the files in which the application stores the data.

I was unable to find it and asked for help.

Roger