| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au> |
| Cc: | mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Indexing on a separate volume |
| Date: | 2001-06-13 14:07:37 |
| Message-ID: | 200106131407.f5DE7cx03955@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, mlw wrote:
>
> > I was thinking this morning, how much work would it be to change the directory
> > structure of Postgres.
>
> Another useful change would be the addition of directory splitting in the
> database directories. This will increase performance on operating systems
> whose filesystem performance drops dramatically with a large number of
> files (say, large objects) in a single directory.
Good news is that in 7.1 large objects are all in one file. Again, see
the TODO.detail about tablespaces.
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