Re: Indexing on a separate volume - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Indexing on a separate volume
Date
Msg-id 200106131407.f5DE7cx03955@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Indexing on a separate volume  (Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>)
List pgsql-hackers
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, mlw wrote:
> 
> > I was thinking this morning, how much work would it be to change the directory
> > structure of Postgres. 
> 
> Another useful change would be the addition of directory splitting in the
> database directories. This will increase performance on operating systems
> whose filesystem performance drops dramatically with a large number of
> files (say, large objects) in a single directory.

Good news is that in 7.1 large objects are all in one file.  Again, see
the TODO.detail about tablespaces.

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