From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Justin Pryzby <pryzby@telsasoft.com>
Cc: Rafia Sabih <rafia.pghackers@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: make \d pg_toast.foo show its indices ; and, \d toast show its main table
Date: Mon, 6 May 2019 12:33:59 -0400
Message-ID: <20190506163359.GA29291@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190506162251.GN3925@telsasoft.com>
On 2019-May-06, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Perhaps ... but TOAST is an implementation detail, and I think it should rarely
> be important to know the toast table for a given table.
I'm with Andres -- while it's admittedly a rare need, it is a real one.
Sometimes I wish for \d++ which would display internal details too obscure
to show in the regular \d+, such as the toast table name.
--
Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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