pg_filenode_relation> is the reverse of
pg_relation_filenode>. Given a tablespace> OID and
- a filenode> it returns the associated relation. The default
- tablespace can be specified as 0.
+ a filenode>, it returns the associated relation's OID. For a table
+ in the database's default tablespace, the tablespace can be specified as 0.
* Get the relation via (reltablespace, relfilenode)
*
* This is expected to be used when somebody wants to match an individual file
- * on the filesystem back to its table. Thats not trivially possible via
- * pg_class because that doesn't contain the relfilenodes of shared and nailed
+ * on the filesystem back to its table. That's not trivially possible via
+ * pg_class, because that doesn't contain the relfilenodes of shared and nailed
* tables.
*
* We don't fail but return NULL if we cannot find a mapping.
*
- * Instead of knowing DEFAULTTABLESPACE_OID you can pass 0.
+ * InvalidOid can be passed instead of the current database's default
+ * tablespace.
*/
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pg_filenode_relation(PG_FUNCTION_ARGS)