Re: Technical question for a journalist - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, Jean-Christophe Arnu wrote:

> Robert Treat m'expliquait  (le 07.01.2005 18:05):
>
> >Anyone know a list of common databases that have or don't have this
> >feature?  I'm thinking of the main players like oracle, m$, db2, sybase,
> >informix, my$ql, firebird, etc...
> >
> >
> While googleling a little,
>
> Tablespace functionnality
> ================
> Oracle Yes  (really need an url?)
> Informix Yes (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixbr/chapter/ch14.html)
> DB2 Yes
> (http://www-306.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/doc/v40/ae/infocenter/was/040401010708.html)
> M$$ql  Yes
> (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/deploy/sqlorpro.mspx)
> My$SQL Yes (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Multiple_tablespaces.html

I don't think MySQL's implementation is really at all like ours. It just
means that there is a file per table -- you cannot determine where that
file is, from memory.

> Firebird does not seem

Gavin