Re: For the ametures. (related to "Are we losing momentum?")

On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 11:44:07AM +0000, Ben Clewett wrote:
>
> I miss the way with MySQL I could delete a table, or move it, or back it
> up, manually using 'rm', 'mv' or 'cp'.

Under most circumstances, you can't do that _anyway_, because doing
so will break stuff unless the postmaster is stopped. I agree that
bing able to put tables and files on their own platters would be a
Good Thing, but in order to make it really safe, it needs to be
managed by the postmaster. Making this difficult is sort of a
defence mechanism, therefore: if you make it too easy, people will be
shooting themselves in the foot all the time.

A

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