Re: Big 7.1 open items

Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>

To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com>

Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>

Date: 2000-06-14T23:51:51Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

At 07:13 PM 6/14/00 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>> 
>>     This way, it  would  be  much  easier  to  separate  all  the
>>     different  object types to different physical media. We would
>>     loose some  transparency,  but  I've  allways  wondered  what
>>     people  USE  that  for  (except  for  just  wanna  know). For
>>     convinience we could implement another  little  utility  that
>>     tells the object size like
>
>Yes, we could do that.

It's a poor man's substitute for a proper create tablespace on
storage 'filesystem' - style dml statement, but it's a step in
the right direction.



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