Re: [HACKERS] Just a small thing for 6.3 ...

Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org>

From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To: Mattias Kregert <matti@algonet.se>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1998-01-14T17:01:15Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Mattias Kregert wrote:

> May I suggest a minor change?
> 
> - "Keep the directory tidy"
> 
>   The "data/base/*/" directories looks awful, almost as bad as the
>   c:\windows dir on my dos partition... ;-)  All types of files are
>   just thrown in, without any structure. It would be nice if the
>   files were put into separate subdirs:
>   data/base/mydb/{systables,tables,indexes,sequences,tmp} etc.

	I like to be able to do an 'ls -lt' on the directory to watch
vacuum's process, so don't really like this idea, except the idea of
moving the tmp files into a seperate subdirectory, as you are right, being
able to "move" just the temp file creation to a seperate area would be
nice