Re: Technical question for a journalist

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