Re: [HACKERS] [hackers]development suggestion needed

> As you say, you can fake it manually with symbolic links, but that's
> a kluge.
> 
> The "database location" stuff that Peter and Thomas have been arguing
> about is intended to allow a single postmaster to control databases that
> are in multiple physical locations --- but there seems to be some debate
> as to whether it works ;-).  (I never tried it.)  In any case, we don't
> currently have any official provision for controlling location at finer
> than database level.  It'd be nice to be able to push individual tables
> around, I suppose.
> 
> This wouldn't require a new storage manager, since presumably you'd
> still be using the Unix-filesystem storage manager.  The trick would be
> to allow a path rather than just a base file name to be specified
> per-relation.  I'm not sure if it'd be hard or not.  Probably, all the
> system tables would have to stay in the database's default directory,
> but maybe user tables could be given path names without too much
> trouble...

Or we could continue to use symlinks, and just create them ourselves in
the backend.

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