Re: Big 7.1 open items

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-06-15T12:03:31Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jan Wieck wrote:

>     Why not changing the naming to be something like this:
> 
>         <dbroot>/catalog_tables/pg_...
>         <dbroot>/catalog_index/pg_...
>         <dbroot>/user_tables/oid_...
>         <dbroot>/user_index/oid_...
>         <dbroot>/temp_tables/oid_...
>         <dbroot>/temp_index/oid_...
>         <dbroot>/toast_tables/oid_...
>         <dbroot>/toast_index/oid_...
>         <dbroot>/whatnot_???/...
> 
>     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

Wow, I've been advocating this one for how many months now? :)  You won't
get any arguments from me ...