Re: Indexes on separate disk ?

From: Ragnar Kjørstad <postgres(at)ragnark(dot)vestdata(dot)no>
To: Charlie Toohey <ctoohey(at)pacbell(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Indexes on separate disk ?
Date: 2002-06-13 21:21:57
Message-ID: 20020613232157.A19061@vestdata.no
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 12:49:39PM -0700, Charlie Toohey wrote:
> I've looked around a lot and don't think this is possible with Postgres, but
> figured I would ask in case I missed something. Is it possible to configure
> things so that an index resides on a separate disk ? It doesn't look like it,
> since they both have to reside in the same database, and the entire contents
> of the database would reside underneath a single directory, and therefore on
> a single disk.

Maybe you can just move it to a different filesystem and use a symlink?

It should be transparent to postgresql unless it ever replaces the file.

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Ragnar Kjørstad
Big Storage

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