From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>, "'Hiroshi Inoue'" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu> |
Subject: | Re: Big 7.1 open items |
Date: | 2000-06-27 21:16:49 |
Message-ID: | 200006272116.RAA09578@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> > Mikheev, Vadim writes:
> >> Do we need *both* database & tablespace to find table file ?!
> >> Imho, database shouldn't be used...
>
> > Then the system tables from different databases would collide.
>
> I've been assuming that we would create a separate tablespace for
> each database, which would be the location of that database's
> system tables. It's probably also the default tablespace for user
> tables created in that database, though it wouldn't have to be.
>
> There should also be a known tablespace for the installation-wide tables
> (pg_shadow et al).
>
> With this approach tablespace+relation would indeed be a sufficient
> identifier. We could even eliminate the knowledge that certain
> tables are installation-wide from the bufmgr and below (currently
> that knowledge is hardwired in places that I'd rather didn't know
> about it...)
Well, if we did that, I can see a good reason to not use per-database
directories in the tablepspace.
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