Re: Applying TOAST to CURRENT

The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 May 2000, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> 
> > The only drawback is bloating directories, but it was already suggested
> > that
> > TOAST tables could/should be kept in subdirectory toast (as should
> > indexes
> > too, imho).
> 
> still say, simplest "fix":
> 
>         <dbname>/{system,db,toast,index}

Why can't we just add a column named "tablepath" to pg_table, that can
either be 
a simple filename, or relative path with a filename or even full path 
(if we don't worry too much for security ;)

That has came up before when discussing ways to make rename table
rollbackable
but it could be handy here two. 

AFAIK it has been a general principle in programming to keep separate
things 
separate unless a very good reason not to do so is present.

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Hannu