> mlw said: >>> Does anyone think it would be a good idea, or is it even practical, to >>> have a 'indx' subdirectory along side of the 'base' directory? >>> >>> I was thinking that, if it were an easy modification, that it could be >>> an easy way to separate data and indexes to different hard disks.
This and other quick hacks have been discussed before. I think the consensus has been to do nothing until someone gets around to writing a general-purpose tablespace implementation. FWIW, I don't think it would be an easy modification. The low-level file access code doesn't even know whether a given relation is an index or not (... and I don't think it should know). By the time you get done implementing something reasonable at that level, you've got the infrastructure you need for tablespaces. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])