Re: [HACKERS] [hackers]development suggestion needed

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, 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 05:59:08
Message-ID: 28538.947829548@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> ...
> Or we could continue to use symlinks, and just create them ourselves in
> the backend.

But you'd still need some built-in understanding about where the table
is Really Supposed To Be, because you'd need to be able to create and
delete the symlinks on the fly when the table grows past a 1-Gb segment
boundary (or is shrunk back again by vacuum!).

AFAICS, a reasonable solution still requires storing a location path
for each table --- so you might as well just use that path directly.

regards, tom lane

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