Re: Multiple Spindles ( Was: Re: [HACKERS] [hackers]development suggestion needed )

> On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Don Baccus wrote:
> 
> > My site's still in the experimental stage, being used by a couple
> > dozen folks to record bird distribution data in the Pacific NW, so
> > I don't personally have real-world data to get a feeling for how
> > important this might become.  Still, Oracle DBA docs talk a lot
> > about it so in some real-world scenarios being able to distribute
> > tables and indices on different spindles must pay off.
> 
> What would it take to break the data/base/<database> directory down?  To
> something like, maybe:
> 
> data/base/<database>/pg_*
>                     /tables/*
>                     /indices/*

And put sort and large objects somewhere separate too.
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