Bingo = great :). The I/O problem seems to be solved :). A table space concept would be top of the histlist :).
The symlink version is not very comfortable and I think it would be a real hack. Also: If we had a clean table space concept it would be real advantage. In the first place it would be enough to define a directory (alter tablespace, changing sizes etc. could be a lot of work). How could CREATE TABLESPACE look like? Personally I like the Oracle Syntax. Is it already time to work on the parser for CREATE/ALTER/DROP TABLESPACE? Hans Tom Lane wrote: >Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>Bingo! Want to increase sorting performance, give it more I/O >>bandwidth, and it will take 1/100th of the time to do threading. >> >> > > > >>Added to TODO: >> * Allow sorting to use multiple work directories >> >> > >Yeah, I like that. Actually it should apply to all temp files not only >sorting. > >A crude hack would be to allow there to be multiple pg_temp_NNN/ >subdirectories (read symlinks) in a database, and then the code would >automatically switch among these. > >Probably a cleaner idea would be to somehow integrate this with >tablespace management --- if you could mark some tablespaces as intended >for temp stuff, the system could round-robin among those as it creates >temp files and/or temp tables. > > regards, tom lane > > -- *Cybertec Geschwinde u Schoenig* Ludo-Hartmannplatz 1/14, A-1160 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43/1/913 68 09; +43/664/233 90 75 www.postgresql.at <http://www.postgresql.at>, cluster.postgresql.at <http://cluster.postgresql.at>, www.cybertec.at <http://www.cybertec.at>, kernel.cybertec.at <http://kernel.cybertec.at> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org