Re: Feature request - Decode relation in Server Status / Lock display

[Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume(at)lelarge(dot)info>]

Mike Blackwell wrote:
> Guillaume Lelarge wrote:
> > Mike Blackwell wrote:
> > > Would it be possible, perhaps as an option, to display the relation 
> > > name, and possibly the type, in the Server Status Lock display?
> >
> > It already does this but you only have relation names for relations 
> > belonging to the database you're connected to (ie your maintenance 
> > database).
> Hmm...
>
> Connected to via the initial connection as listed in the server 
> registrartion window?

Yes, this is the maintenance database.

>  Or connected to by selecting it in the Object 
> browser so it no longer has on X on the icon, or the currently selected 
> database in the browser?

No.

> I generally have connections (as shown on the 
> Server Status page) to several database, including the one I expect to 
> have the locks in question, but do not see the relations translated.
> What prevents showing the names for all databases?

It's a PostgreSQL security feature. When you're connected to a database, 
tables from other databases are not available (even their names).

  It's curious that
> the oids are available but not the names.  I should really brush off my 
> C skills and take a look at the code sometime to see what's going on in 
> there. ^_^'''

:)


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