| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii(at)sra(dot)co(dot)jp>, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, xun(at)cs(dot)ucsb(dot)edu, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] [hackers]development suggestion needed |
| Date: | 2000-01-14 03:18:14 |
| Message-ID: | 200001140318.WAA28247@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Oracle tables and indices within a single tablespace all live in
> one file (if you're using filesystem rather than raw I/O), so
> they also provide features which allow you to specify how big
> a chunk to allocate per extent (Oracle pre-allocates to avoid
> running out of disk space while you're running except in ways
> that you control, and in hopes of getting contiguous chunks of
> disk storage because they hope you're using previously empty
> disks used only for Oracle).
And with data and index in the same file, you can't split them across
spindles.
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