On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Jan Wieck wrote:
> Why not changing the naming to be something like this:
>
> <dbroot>/catalog_tables/pg_...
> <dbroot>/catalog_index/pg_...
> <dbroot>/user_tables/oid_...
> <dbroot>/user_index/oid_...
> <dbroot>/temp_tables/oid_...
> <dbroot>/temp_index/oid_...
> <dbroot>/toast_tables/oid_...
> <dbroot>/toast_index/oid_...
> <dbroot>/whatnot_???/...
>
> This way, it would be much easier to separate all the
> different object types to different physical media. We would
> loose some transparency, but I've allways wondered what
> people USE that for (except for just wanna know). For
> convinience we could implement another little utility that
> tells the object size like
Wow, I've been advocating this one for how many months now? :) You won't
get any arguments from me ...