Re: Technical question for a journalist
От | Robert Treat |
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Тема | Re: Technical question for a journalist |
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Msg-id | 1105117556.31695.2954.camel@camel обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Technical question for a journalist ("Magnus Hagander" <mha@sollentuna.net>) |
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Re: Technical question for a journalist
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Список | pgsql-advocacy |
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:46, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > No need to send out the press release :-), I was alreday > > grilled half an hour by a French journalist about v8. He had > > apparently read an interview of Marc Fournier somewhere. > > > > Anyway, the journalist had a question about tablespaces. I > > told him it enabled clustering on individual disks or arrays > > of disks. The journalist then said that this seemed like a > > rather basic feature and was surprised that PostgreSQL wasn't > > already able to do that in the previous versions. Is that > > indeed the case or was there another clustering mechanism before? > > You could do it pre-8.0 but it required manual hacking with symlinks. > Which also required you to do extra symlinks if/when yuor table grew > into several files etc. And you had to shut down the server to do it. > (If you wanted individual items in the same db that is. You could put > entire databases on a separate disk and not nede to do the extra linking > when it grew) > Anyone know a list of common databases that have or don't have this feature? I'm thinking of the main players like oracle, m$, db2, sybase, informix, my$ql, firebird, etc... Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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