Re: Big 7.1 open items

"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM> writes:
> We could create /data/databases/DATABASEOID/ and create soft-links to
> table-files. This way different tables of the same database could be in
> different tablespaces. /data/database path would be used in production
> and /data/tablespace path would be used in recovery.

Why would you want to do it that way?  Having a different access path
for recovery than for normal operation strikes me as just asking for
trouble ;-)

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").
        regards, tom lane