Re: virtual filesystem atop a PostgreSQL database - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Frank Joerdens
Subject Re: virtual filesystem atop a PostgreSQL database
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Msg-id 20010928102952.A17965@rakete.joerdens.de
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In response to Re: virtual filesystem atop a PostgreSQL database  ("Marshall Spight" <marshall@meetstheeye.com>)
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 01:48:26PM -0700, Marshall Spight wrote:
> "Jan Pruner" <pruner@cekia.cz> wrote in message
> news:0109251451420D.01444@jpr...
> > Hmm, filesystem IS database.
> > If you need SQL-like functionality to ask  for something in your fs why do
> > you want to mount db like fs?
> > You can build a sql-like shell !?! EnhancedBASH?
>
> Is the filesystem relational? Transactional?
>
> Filesystems ought to be more like databases. Note Oracle's IFS;
> it's very cool. If I had tens of thousands of dollars to burn, I'd
> sure be running Oracle. As it is, I use PostgreSQL, but I wish
> I had IFS.
>
> I think that's what the OP is talking about.

I was indeed.

/Frank

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