Re: Index File growing big.

Yes, the issue was that it only had places for heap and index location,
not more generic.

I can work with a few folks to get this done. I think it can be done in
a few stages:

    Decide on syntax/functionality
    Update grammer to support it
    Update system catalogs to hold information
    Update storage manager to handle storage locations

If folks can decide on the first item, I can do the second and third
ones.

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Jim Buttafuoco wrote:
> All,
>
> I was the person who submitted the patch.  I tried to a generic syntax.  I also tried to keep the tablespace concept
> simple.  See my posting on HACKERS/GENERAL from a week or 2 ago about the syntax.  I am still interested in working
on
> this patch with others.  I have many system here that are 500+ gigabytes and growing.  It is a real pain to add more
> disk space (I have to backup, drop database(s), rebuild raid set (I am using raid 10) and reload data).
>
> Jim
>
>
>
> > > > You should note that someone already has sent in a patch for
> > tablespaces, it
> > > > hasn't been acted on though - can't quite remember why.  Maybe we should
> > > > resurrect it...
> > >
> > > It's been awhile, but my recollection is that the patch had restricted
> > > functionality (which would be okay for a first cut) and it invented SQL
> > > syntax that seemed to lock us into that restricted functionality
> > > permanently (not so okay).  Details are fuzzy though...
> >
> > Well, I'll resurrect it and see if it can be improved.  Tablespaces seem to
> > be a requested feature these days...
> >
> > Chris
> >
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