Re: Big 7.1 open items

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Big 7.1 open items
Date: 2000-06-15 12:03:31
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0006150902101.722-100000@thelab.hub.org
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On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jan Wieck wrote:

> Why not changing the naming to be something like this:
>
> <dbroot>/catalog_tables/pg_...
> <dbroot>/catalog_index/pg_...
> <dbroot>/user_tables/oid_...
> <dbroot>/user_index/oid_...
> <dbroot>/temp_tables/oid_...
> <dbroot>/temp_index/oid_...
> <dbroot>/toast_tables/oid_...
> <dbroot>/toast_index/oid_...
> <dbroot>/whatnot_???/...
>
> This way, it would be much easier to separate all the
> different object types to different physical media. We would
> loose some transparency, but I've allways wondered what
> people USE that for (except for just wanna know). For
> convinience we could implement another little utility that
> tells the object size like

Wow, I've been advocating this one for how many months now? :) You won't
get any arguments from me ...

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