Re: virtual filesystem atop a PostgreSQL database

From: "Marshall Spight" <marshall(at)meetstheeye(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: virtual filesystem atop a PostgreSQL database
Date: 2001-09-25 20:48:26
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"Jan Pruner" <pruner(at)cekia(dot)cz> wrote in message
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> Hmm, filesystem IS database.
> If you need SQL-like functionality to ask for something in your fs why do
> you want to mount db like fs?
> You can build a sql-like shell !?! EnhancedBASH?

Is the filesystem relational? Transactional?

Filesystems ought to be more like databases. Note Oracle's IFS;
it's very cool. If I had tens of thousands of dollars to burn, I'd
sure be running Oracle. As it is, I use PostgreSQL, but I wish
I had IFS.

I think that's what the OP is talking about.

Marshall

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