PostgreSQL uses it's own internal storage engine. It doesn not support multiple one. As for splitting files accross partitions this is a feature of version 8.0 called tablespaces.
http://developer.postgresql.org/docs/postgres/manage-ag-tablespaces.html Should get you pointed in the right direction. On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:27:24 +0200 (CEST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > MySQL has information about several storage engines. MEMORY to handle > temporary tables, InnoDB to handle transactions and which also can split > its table data over several files/partitions. Splitting of storage is > something which according to the following article, PostgreSQL does not > support: > > http://www.devx.com/dbzone/Article/20743 > > But I cannot verify this due to lack of information. I haven't found any > similar information about the storage engine used by PostgreSQL which I > think is called Postgres. > > Do you know of any places where this information can be obtained? > > Thank you. > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
