Re: [HACKERS] [hackers]development suggestion needed (filepath as symlink)

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Zeugswetter Andreas SB <ZeugswetterA(at)wien(dot)spardat(dot)at>, "'pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org '" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] [hackers]development suggestion needed (filepath as symlink)
Date: 2000-01-19 02:27:25
Message-ID: 3.0.1.32.20000118182725.00ef4140@mail.pacifier.com
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At 02:26 AM 1/19/00 +0000, Thomas Lockhart wrote:

>imho symlinks is exactly the wrong way to head on this. If the system
>needs to know the true location of something, then it may as well
>refer to that location explicitly. Our storage manager should learn
>how to deal with explicit locations, and we shouldn't implement this
>just as a patch on the table creation code.

That's my feeling too.

We could document the query needed to list where all tables
are located, grouped by tablespace.

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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