> My vote is for a random number, and then someone can write 
> the tools to display the file info. I'll even volunteer to
> work on them...

Ok. If someone will decide to implement this please try to use
RelFileNode structure defined in storage/relfilenode.h.
It's just place holder for the moment - I needed in *some*
structure as "file pointer" in log records - so feel free
to change context.

Vadim
 

Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:48:13 -0700
"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>
RE: Status of new relation file naming
At 10:48 13/09/00 -0700, Mikheev, Vadim wrote:
>> My vote is for a random number, and then someone can write 
>> the tools to display the file info. I'll even volunteer to
>> work on them...
>
>Ok. If someone will decide to implement this please try to use
>RelFileNode structure defined in storage/relfilenode.h.

Just to clarify, I was offering to write the file info tools, not the
changes to the file handling in PG. Although I would be willing to help in
the latter for obvious reasons.




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Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:02:16 +1000
Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
RE: Status of new relation file naming