Re: Remaining beta blockers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Stephen Frost
Subject Re: Remaining beta blockers
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Msg-id 20130503160552.GW4361@tamriel.snowman.net
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In response to Re: Remaining beta blockers  (Andres Freund <andres@2ndquadrant.com>)
Responses Re: Remaining beta blockers  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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* Andres Freund (andres@2ndquadrant.com) wrote:
> The problem with an extra metadata fork is that it essentially would
> double the files in a cluster and it would also noticeably increase the
> amount of open files we need.

Why would we need it for every relation?  We have other forks (fsm, vm),
but they exist when needed.

I'm more concerned about moving information which really should be in
the system catalogs out into magic files on disk..
Thanks,
    Stephen

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