On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org> writes:
>> course that won't work, since its link'd to the oid of the table name :(
>
> Not to mention all the other system catalogs. You could maybe make this
> idea work by regenerating the entire catalog set, but not by
> regenerating just pg_attribute. But if you don't know the table-to-OID
> mapping in the old database you're screwed anyway :-(
Exactly ... and I take it there are no 'headers' in the files themselves
to use for an association? some way that they are tag'd?
Is there any way of 'raw dumping' pg_attribute itself, to find out the
mappings?
----
Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664