Tom Lane wrote:
> > What about creating a separate filenode anyway and renaming the files
> > afterwards? It would not be an atomic operation anyway, but it would be
> > better than the current setup IMHO.
>
> I think it would be difficult to persuade the buffer manager and storage
> manager to work with this; from their point of view you'd be moving a
> relation underneath them. I doubt it's really worth the trouble; how
> often do you need to reindex a shared catalog?
The point I missed originally is that he is talking about shared
catalogs, not system catalogs, which work fine in CVS.
-- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us pgman@candle.pha.pa.us | (610)
359-1001+ If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square,
Pennsylvania19073