Re: Technical question for a journalist

From: Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Jean-Christophe Arnu <jx(at)tuxfarm(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Technical question for a journalist
Date: 2005-01-09 02:36:32
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.58.0501091335380.31636@linuxworld.com.au
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On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Jean-Christophe Arnu wrote:

> Robert Treat m'expliquait (le 07.01.2005 18:05):
>
> >Anyone know a list of common databases that have or don't have this
> >feature? I'm thinking of the main players like oracle, m$, db2, sybase,
> >informix, my$ql, firebird, etc...
> >
> >
> While googleling a little,
>
> Tablespace functionnality
> ================
> Oracle Yes (really need an url?)
> Informix Yes (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixbr/chapter/ch14.html)
> DB2 Yes
> (http://www-306.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/doc/v40/ae/infocenter/was/040401010708.html)
> M$$ql Yes
> (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/deploy/sqlorpro.mspx)
> My$SQL Yes (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Multiple_tablespaces.html

I don't think MySQL's implementation is really at all like ours. It just
means that there is a file per table -- you cannot determine where that
file is, from memory.

> Firebird does not seem

Gavin

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