On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:09:42 -0700 Josh Berkus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This idea has been discussed numerous times on the HACKERS list, and is
a
(pretty much) closed issue. While Oracle and SQL Server use their own
filesystems, PostgreSQL will not because:
...
2) The filesystem projects
there are advantages to being able to split the database across a slew of
disk drives. if we accept the notion of using the native OS filesystem on
each, it would seem that being able to direct various tables and indices
to
specific drives might be a valuble capability. i know that i could go
Greg,
FWIW, Informix can be run using a cooked (Unix) file for storing data or
it uses raw disk space and bypasses the ordinary (high level) UNIX
controllers and does its own reads/writes. About 10 times faster and safer.
Of course, itmay have taken a lot of programmer time to make that
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 09:48:18 +0800 Christopher Kings-Lynne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We've got a little bunch of us tinkering with a tablespace
implementation.
However, it's been staller for a while now.
interesting. i'm involved in the very early stages of a startup that is
likely to do a
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
I think Gavin Sherry is working on this. I am CC'ing him.
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Yes I am working on this. I am about 50% of the way through the patch but
have been held up with other work. For
