Re: Big 7.1 open items

> > I am suggesting this symlink:
> > 
> >     ln -s data/base/testdb/myspace /var/myspace/testdb
> > 
> > rather than:
> > 
> >     ln -s data/base/testdb/myspace /var/myspace
> > 
> > Tablespaces still sit inside database directories, it is just that it
> > points to a subdirectory of myspace, rather than myspace itself.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^

Sorry, I should have said a symlink sits in data/base and points to the
tablespace.  My issue is having it point to tablespace/database and not
just tablespace/.

> 
> Didn't you mean 
> 
> ln -s /var/myspace/testdb data/base/testdb/myspace
> 

No, sorry for the confusion.


> ?
> 
> I thought that you don't like symlinks from data/base/... This is
> how I understood Tom' words:
> 
> > The symlinks wouldn't do any good for what Bruce had in mind anyway
> > (IIRC, he wanted to get useful per-database numbers from "du").

No, I want symlinks in data/base.  What I wanted was to have
per-database directories in every tablespace so I can do a 'du' in the
tablespace directory to see how much of each database is the tablespace.
It also nicely partitions the files, makes the directories smaller, and
prevents any possible file name conflict.

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