Re: Future plans for raw devices ?

> > [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]
> > > I understand OID is signed integer which go up to  2^31.
> > > Almost any case it would be sufficient. (It's sufficient for me, at least)
> > >
> > > What I really want to know is the same as original poster.
> > >
> > > > > 8. Can a database be spread over more than one disk drive?
> >
> > Yes, by creating symbolic links for the files in data/base/dbname.
> >
> > > > > 9. Can a table be spread over more than one disk drive?
> >
> > Yes, if it gets over 1GB, it is split and a new file created.  Symbolic
> > links allow them to be moved.
> >
>
> Yeah ! Strong magic! BTW: are there any plans to have the database files on raw
> devices in the future?
>

Most think that raw devices are a pain and offer little performance
improvement and lots of portability and coding problems.

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