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Re: [HACKERS] Alternate locations for databases

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us> — 1998-01-11T20:48:39Z

Just checking to make sure this properly documented for 6.3 beta.  Is
it?

> 
> > >   CREATE DATABASE dbname WITH LOCATION = 'dbpath';
> > How much work would it be to also be able to specify an alternate
> > path for a table within a database?  I have some multi-Gb tables
> > and am scrambling for room.  If I could have the tables on separate
> > disks, that'd be wonderful.
> 
> Well, it is (almost) trivial to get the full database in a different location;
> in fact I put into service an unused column in pg_database which had clearly
> been defined for this purpose. Probably not so trivial for individual tables,
> indices, etc. If it is not on the ToDo list, perhaps Bruce could add it? I'm
> probably not going to pursue it at the moment, myself, but would be happy to
> work with someone if they want to do it :) As an aside, there is _no_
> performance penalty for alternate database locations, but there might be for
> distributed tables/indices since the location would need to be looked up at
> least occasionally.
> 
> 


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Bruce Momjian
maillist@candle.pha.pa.us