Re: AW: [HACKERS] Status of new relation file naming

2000-09-14 Thread Philip Warner
At 10:00 14/09/00 +0200, Zeugswetter Andreas SB 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... > >What was the advantage of random number over oid [+version] >in the light that there is

AW: [HACKERS] Status of new relation file naming

2000-09-14 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB
> > 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... What was the advantage of random number over oid [+version] in the light that there is an extra field in pg_class for other smgrs ? We surely want re

AW: [HACKERS] Status of new relation file naming

2000-09-14 Thread Zeugswetter Andreas SB
> > You have to tell us whether you plan to implement > > a safe file rename in WAL ? If yes a simple filename > > without version would be possible and better. > > What do you mean? The previous discussion we had where we concluded, that an os rename of a file cannot be done without risc. Bu