Re: Big 7.1 open items

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

To: "Philip J. Warner" <pjw@rhyme.com.au>

Cc: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>, Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com>, "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>

Date: 2000-06-21T15:23:26Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

> At 22:12 20/06/00 -0700, Don Baccus wrote:
> >At 11:22 AM 6/21/00 +1000, Philip J. Warner wrote:
> >
> >>It may be worth considering leaving the CREATE TABLE statement alone.
> >>Dec/RDB uses a new statement entirely to define where a table goes...
> >
> >It's worth considering, but on the other hand Oracle users greatly
> >outnumber Compaq/RDB users these days...
> 
> It's actually Oracle/Rdb, but I call it Dec/Rdb to distinguish it from
> 'Oracle/Oracle'. It was acquired by Oracle, supposedly because Oracle
> wanted their optimizer, management and tuning tools (although that was only
> hearsay). They *say* that they plan to merge the two products.
> 
> What I was trying to suggest was that the CREATE TABLE statement will get
> very overloaded, and it might be worth avoiding having to support two
> storage management syntaxes if/when it becomes desirable to create a
> 'storage' statement of some kind.
> 

Seems adding tablespace to CREATE TABLE/INDEX/DATABASE is pretty simple.
Doing it as a separate command seems cumbersome.

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