Re: emergency outage requiring database restart

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Jim Nasby wrote:
>> It occurs to me that it might be worth embedding the relation name in the
>> free space of the first block. Most people would never notice the missing 64
>> bytes, but it would be incredibly helpful in cases like this...

> Agreed.  The problem is how to install it without breaking pg_upgrade.

Well, that's the first problem.  The second problem is how to cope with
RENAME TABLE.
        regards, tom lane