Re: Indexing on a separate volume

From: Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>
To: mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Indexing on a separate volume
Date: 2001-06-13 13:55:45
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0106132325350.17854-100000@linuxworld.com.au
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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.

Gavin

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