Re: [GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2004-03-26 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:53:47 -0600, Guy Rouillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I saw in the referenced sequence of posts that PostgreSQL will close a > file for a table once it reaches 1 GB, and start a new file. So I'm > concluding PostgreSQL has the ability to span multiple files for a

Re: [GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2004-03-26 Thread Guy Rouillier
Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 11:53:47 -0600, > Guy Rouillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I saw in the referenced sequence of posts that PostgreSQL will close >> a file for a table once it reaches 1 GB, and start a new file. So >> I'm concluding PostgreSQL has the abilit

Re: [GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2004-03-26 Thread scott.marlowe
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Guy Rouillier wrote: > (Resurrecting a subject I found searching the archives...) > > Newbie. We're investigating replacing our Oracle databases with > PostgreSQL. Our largest database is currently 25 GB and growing. It > contains time sequenced data. Under Oracle, we use

[GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2004-03-26 Thread Guy Rouillier
(Resurrecting a subject I found searching the archives...) Newbie. We're investigating replacing our Oracle databases with PostgreSQL. Our largest database is currently 25 GB and growing. It contains time sequenced data. Under Oracle, we use a partitioned tablespace for the busiest table, so t

Re: [HACKERS] [GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2003-06-29 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Wednesday 25 June 2003 21:21, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > My solution did not involve tablespaces, but was more of a quick solution > to make it easier for admins to do _some_ sort of physical configuration. > > The idea is that the developer could do something like > > 'create alternate location

[GENERAL] Physical Database Configuration

2003-06-24 Thread Jonathan Bartlett
I know the current method for specifying alternate drives for PG tables is by using symlinks. I had some ideas for simple ways to do this in PG code, but wanted to know if anyone was working on this right now. I'd hate to take the time to start messing with this if others were already on it. Jon