| From: | Alfred Perlstein <bright(at)wintelcom(dot)net> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Casey Lyon <casey(at)earthcars(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Thanks, naming conventions, and count() |
| Date: | 2001-04-30 03:17:28 |
| Message-ID: | 20010429201728.M18676@fw.wintelcom.net |
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* Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> [010429 20:14] wrote:
> Yes, I like that idea, but the problem is that it is hard to update just
> one table in the file. You sort of have to update the entire file each
> time a table changes. That is why I liked symlinks because they are
> per-table, but you are right that the symlink creation could fail
> because the new table file was never created or something, leaving the
> symlink pointing to nothing. Not sure how to address this. Is there a
> way to update a flat file when a single table changes?
Sort of, if that flat file is in the form of:
123456;"tablename "
000033;"another_table "
ie, each line is a fixed length.
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