Re: Indexes

From: "Nigel J(dot) Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Daniel Kalchev <daniel(at)digsys(dot)bg>, mlw <pgsql(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Indexes
Date: 2003-01-16 22:05:02
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0301162203200.17547-100000@ponder.fairway2k.co.uk
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On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Tom Lane wrote:

> > mlw said:
> >>> Does anyone think it would be a good idea, or is it even practical, to
> >>> have a 'indx' subdirectory along side of the 'base' directory?
> >>>
> >>> I was thinking that, if it were an easy modification, that it could be
> >>> an easy way to separate data and indexes to different hard disks.
>
> This and other quick hacks have been discussed before. I think the
> consensus has been to do nothing until someone gets around to writing
> a general-purpose tablespace implementation.

Wasn't someone just about done with a tablespace implementation? I certainly
remember some discussion on this subject a few months ago.

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Nigel J. Andrews

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