Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
>> ... But I think it's critical to keep
>> the low-level file access protocol simple and reliable, which really
>> means minimizing the amount of information the backend needs to know
>> to figure out which file to write a page in. With something like the
>> above you only need to know the tablespace name (or more likely OID),
>> the relation OID (+name or not, depending on outcome of other
>> argument), and the offset in the table. No worse than now from the
>> software's point of view.
>> Comments?
> I'm probably missing the context a bit, but imho we should try hard to
> stay away from symlinks as the general solution for anything.
Why?
regards, tom lane