| From: | Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Oliver Elphick <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Big 7.1 open items |
| Date: | 2000-06-15 06:29:29 |
| Message-ID: | 394877C9.B1CC8114@alumni.caltech.edu |
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> But seriously, let me give some background. I used Ingres, that used
> the VMS file system, but used strange sequential AAAF324 numbers for
> tables. When someone deleted a table, or we were looking at what
> tables were using disk space, it was impossible to find the Ingres
> table names that went with the file. There was a system table that
> showed it, but it was poorly documented, and if you deleted the table,
> there was no way to look on the tape to find out which file to
> restore.
I had the same experience, but let's put the blame where it belongs: it
wasn't the filename's fault, it was poor design and support from the
Ingres company.
- Thomas
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