Re: Storage Location Patch Proposal for V7.3

On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 12:26:17PM -0500, Jim Buttafuoco allegedly wrote:
> The example below has 3 tablespaces/locations PGDATA/DB1/DB2
> PG_LOCATIONS (or PG_TABLESPACES) would have the following rows
> PGDATA | /usr/local/pgsql/data
> DB1 | /db1
> DB2 | /db2

<SNIP>

> /db1/data/5432
> ^-------------------------<< second location default PG PORT
> /db1/data/5432/65894834/99999999
> ^------<< somedb/sometable
> /db1/data/5432/65894834/88888888
> ^------<< somedb/someindex
>
> /db2/data/5432
> ^-------------------------<< DB2

Should data/ even be in there? /db2/5432 seems to be the correct value.
Either that or change the location to /db2/data. Implicitly creating an
extra directory isn't something I would like to happen, especially if it
doesn't happen for PGDATA itself.

My $.02,

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