"Josh Tolley" <eggyknap@gmail.com> writes:
> On 10/1/07, S Sharma <data_arch@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> It would be nice to have a feature to define a default table space for
>> indexes in db conf file and all indexed are created in that table space.
> Although the most basic optimization suggested when using tablespaces
> is always "Put indexes on one and data on another to avoid disk
> contention", I doubt that the ideal optimization for many workloads,
> which means sticking such a thing in a config file might not be such a
> good idea. In other words, a DBA probably ought to think harder about
> optimizing his/her use of tablespaces than just "I'll put indexes on
> this one and data on another".
Yeah, I think that argument is why we did not provide such a setup to
begin with...
regards, tom lane