Clayton Vernon writes:

> A newbie question as I prepare to dive into this:
>
> Under $PGDATA, can I expect to see subdirectories emerge within databases, say for 
>INDICES, TABLES, etc?

The layout (in 7.1) is $PGDATA/base/<oid of database>/<oid of table,index...>

> The reason:
>
> On Solaris,
>
> I have some RAM in /tmp I want to employ as a virtual file system to increase the 
>performance of PG. I've mounted the software in /tmp/pgsql/...., and I would also 
>like to mount some of the data files here as well. Since PG will create files I will 
>need for the symbolic links to be at the directory level, so I was wondering if 
>anyone had developed any "tricks" to get certain blocks of data files to fall into 
>subdirectories?

Unless you like your data, don't do that.  What happens in case of a
crash?

-- 
Peter Eisentraut   [EMAIL PROTECTED]   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter


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