Re: Big 7.1 open items

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>
Cc: "'Hiroshi Inoue'" <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: Big 7.1 open items
Date: 2000-06-26 22:48:22
Message-ID: 19576.962059702@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM> writes:
> We could create /data/databases/DATABASEOID/ and create soft-links to
> table-files. This way different tables of the same database could be in
> different tablespaces. /data/database path would be used in production
> and /data/tablespace path would be used in recovery.

Why would you want to do it that way? Having a different access path
for recovery than for normal operation strikes me as just asking for
trouble ;-)

The symlinks wouldn't do any good for what Bruce had in mind anyway
(IIRC, he wanted to get useful per-database numbers from "du").

regards, tom lane

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