On 2013-08-02 08:41:09 -0400, Stephen Frost wrote: > Perhaps having the file be a heap file instead of anything a sysadmin > can be asked to go hack would also make it more clear that this is an > internal PG file which is to be managed only through PG and stop all > this arguing about how "oh, they can just fix it by twiddling things in > $PGDATA" is considered by some to be an acceptable solution. Heck, it'd > also keep the number of files down while allowing more fine-grained > modifications and writes (iow, we wouldn't have to rewrite the whole > file every time..).
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