Re: [HACKERS] [hackers]development suggestion needed

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Xun Cheng <xun(at)cs(dot)ucsb(dot)edu>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [hackers]development suggestion needed
Date: 2000-01-14 02:20:56
Message-ID: 200001140220.VAA26503@candle.pha.pa.us
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> This would need to be done to implement some sort of tablespace-style
> facility, too, right? I'm off Xun's thread in asking but I've been
> wondering. DBs like Oracle allow you to place tables and indices
> whereever you like in the filesystem. This is normally done to
> distribute things across different spindles, and in large, busy
> databases makes a significant difference. I've done some experimenting
> moving index files to a different spindle (using "ln" to fool
> postgres, of course) and insertions go measurably faster. Spindles
> are so cheap nowadays :)

WAL will add the oid to the base file name. That may make tablespaces
easier.

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