Re: WORM and Read Only Tables (v0.1)

From: Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: WORM and Read Only Tables (v0.1)
Date: 2007-12-11 13:07:30
Message-ID: 1197378450.14272.82.camel@PCD12478
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On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 14:58 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Ühel kenal päeval, T, 2007-12-11 kell 13:44, kirjutas Csaba Nagy:
> >> Then put the active chunk on a high performance file system and the
> > archive tablespace on a compressed/slow/cheap file system and you're
> > done. Allow even the archive chunk to be updateable, and put new tuple
> > data in the active chunk. It would work just fine for cases where the
> > old data is rarely updated/deleted...
>
> You can't update a table on a read-only (write-once) partition, at least
> not with current header structure.

OK, but that's what I'm challenging, why do you need a write once
partition ? You mean by that tapes ? OK, it means I was thinking in
completely different usage scenarios then...

Cheers,
Csaba.

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