Re: [HACKERS] createdb with alternate location

On 1999-12-13, Karel Zak - Zakkr mentioned:

> On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, I wrote:
> 
> > In my venturing into createdb/dropdb I came to that little artifact that
> > allows you to create databases at alternate locations using environment
> > variables as part of the path (CREATE DATABASE elsewhere WITH LOCATION =
> > 'PGDATA2/foo').
> 
> And what add to create-database management a TABLESPACE layout? It is
> standard in any SQL (Oracle). It is good "investment" to future, because

It's not standard in _the_ SQL though.

> on TABLESPACE tie storage management ..etc (see old "Raw device" thread
> in the hackers list).         

I don't know how much use such a generalized version would be vs. the
overhead involved. You can hang on to that thought though, if you like.
I'd like to get this "advertised" feature working first, however.

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