Re: Big 7.1 open items

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Ross J(dot) Reedstrom" <reedstrm(at)rice(dot)edu>
Subject: Re: Big 7.1 open items
Date: 2000-06-18 22:50:17
Message-ID: 200006182250.SAA13436@candle.pha.pa.us
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If we eliminate the round-robin idea, what did people think of the rest
of the ideas?

> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > ... We could even get fancy and
> > round-robin through all the extents directories, looping around to the
> > beginning when we run out of them. That sounds nice.
>
> That sounds horrible. There's no way to tell which extent directory
> extent N goes into except by scanning the location directory to find
> out how many extent subdirectories there are (so that you can compute
> N modulo number-of-directories). Do you want to pay that price on every
> file open?

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