On 26/09/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:Peter.Tolkewitz@gmx.de">Peter.Tolkewitz@gmx.de</a></b> <<a href="mailto:Peter.Tolkewitz@gmx.de">Peter.Tolkewitz@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote">
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Regina, thank you very much for this information. How many tables can I store at most per tablespace without running into performance problems due to directory scans?
</blockquote><div><br>If you use a filesystem like xfs,jfs,reiser4,etc the directory entries are stored in b-tree indexes, so the number of files per directory is much less relevant (cf ext*,etc which do linear scans).<br>
<br>Rob :)</div></div>