Re: Filesystems WAS: Perfomance Tuning

I think Gavin Sherry is working on this.  I am CC'ing him.

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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > there are advantages to being able to split the database across a slew of
> > disk drives. if we accept the notion of using the native OS filesystem on
> > each, it would seem that being able to direct various tables and indices
> to
> > specific drives might be a valuble capability. i know that i could go into
> > /var/lib/pgsql/data/base and fan the contents out, but this is unweildy
> and
> > impractical. has any consideration been given to providing a way to manage
> > such a deployment?
>
> We've got a little bunch of us tinkering with a tablespace implementation.
> However, it's been staller for a while now.
>
> Chris
>
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