Re: Big 7.1 open items

> At 06:50 PM 6/18/00 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> >If we eliminate the round-robin idea, what did people think of the rest
> >of the ideas?
> 
> Why invent new syntax when "create tablespace" is something a lot
> of folks will recognize?
> 
> And why not use "create table ... using ... "?  In other words, 
> Oracle-compatible for this construct?  Sure, Postgres doesn't
> have to follow Oraclisms but picking an existing contruct means
> at least SOME folks can import a datamodel without having to
> edit it.

Sure, use another syntax.  My idea was to use symlinks, and allow their
moving using symlinks and preserve them during dump.

> 
> Does your proposal break the smgr abstraction, i.e. does it
> preclude later efforts to (say) implement an (optional) 
> raw-device storage manager?

Seeing very few want that done, I don't see it as an issue at this
point.

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