Re: [HACKERS] [hackers]development suggestion needed

> Oracle tables and indices within a single tablespace all live in
> one file (if you're using filesystem rather than raw I/O), so 
> they also provide features which allow you to specify how big
> a chunk to allocate per extent (Oracle pre-allocates to avoid
> running out of disk space while you're running except in ways
> that you control, and in hopes of getting contiguous chunks of
> disk storage because they hope you're using previously empty
> disks used only for Oracle).

And with data and index in the same file, you can't split them across
spindles.


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