Re: Status of index location patch - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Bruce,

I stopped all work on this since people seemed confused about the 
tablespace/location words.   I don't think enough of the "core" team likes 
this idea.  Am I wrong here?  Did I explain the patch good enough?  

Please let me know,  I still am planning on doing it for internal use.  I 
would prefer that it was a standard feature.  If you think I should still 
pursue this, let me know what I need to do to get it off the ground.

Thanks for your help
Jim



> Jim, do you have an updated patch that you would like applied for 7.3?
> 
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> 
> Jim Buttafuoco wrote:
> > Vadim,
> > 
> > I guess I am still confused...
> > 
> > In dbcommands.c resolve_alt_dbpath() takes the db oid as a argument. 
> > This number is used to "find" the directory where the data files live. 
> > All the patch does is put the indexes into a "db oid"_index directory
> > instead of "db oid"
> > 
> > 
> > This is for tables  snprintf(ret, len, "%s/base/%u", prefix, dboid);
> > This is for indexes snprintf(ret, len, "%s/base/%u_index", prefix,
> > dboid);
> > 
> > And in catalog.c
> > tables: sprintf(path, "%s/base/%u/%u", DataDir, rnode.tblNode,
> > rnode.relNode);
> > indexes: sprintf(path, "%s/base/%u_index/%u", DataDir,
> >                                 rnode.tblNode,rnode.relNode);
> > 
> > Can you explain how I would get the tblNode for an existing database
> > index files  if it doesn't have the same OID as the database entry in
> > pg_databases.
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
> > 
> > > > Just wondering what is the status of this patch.  Is seems from
> > comments
> > > > that people like the idea.  I have also looked in the archives for
> > other
> > > > people looking for this kind of feature and have found alot of
> > interest.
> > > > 
> > > > If you think it is a good idea for 7.2, let me know what needs to be
> > > > changed and I will work on it this weekend.
> > > 
> > > Just change index' dir naming as was already discussed.
> > > 
> > > Vadim
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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