From: | "Keith C(dot) Perry" <netadmin(at)vcsn(dot)com> |
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To: | Mike Nolan <nolan(at)gw(dot)tssi(dot)com> |
Cc: | Brian Maguire <bmaguire(at)vantage(dot)com>, johnsw(at)wardbrook(dot)com, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: tablespaces in 7.5? |
Date: | 2003-12-13 21:24:29 |
Message-ID: | 1071350669.3fdb838d82fca@webmail.vcsn.com |
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Quoting Mike Nolan <nolan(at)gw(dot)tssi(dot)com>:
> > Ok, thats for the response. I take it a PG namespace = Oracle table space
> (or
> > namespace is simply the generic term). I can see some definite benefits
> > especially with disk i/o throughput though I thought database partitioning
> (I
> > think that is what its called) would provide the same thing.
>
> I could be wrong, but I think 'namespace' is an existing concept in
> PG that is a way of organizing objects into logical groups.
>
> As I recall, the group working on it decided to call it a 'directory' rather
>
> than a 'tablespace', because of concerns that the latter word might be
> proprietary to Oracle. I've lost touch with the rest of the members in
> that group, though, since the computer I was using for PG development
> purposes got zapped by lightning in August.
> --
> Mike Nolan
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I think that is what I was getting confused with before- schemas...
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/catalog-pg-namespace.html
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