> there are advantages to being able to split the database across a slew of
> disk drives. if we accept the notion of using the native OS filesystem on
> each, it would seem that being able to direct various tables and indices
to
> specific drives might be a valuble capability. i know that i could go into
> /var/lib/pgsql/data/base and fan the contents out, but this is unweildy
and
> impractical. has any consideration been given to providing a way to manage
> such a deployment?
We've got a little bunch of us tinkering with a tablespace implementation.
However, it's been staller for a while now.
Chris