At 04:34 PM 3/7/2002 +0100, Martijn Tonies wrote:

> >
> > Sorry, you're quite right. I've made this mistake before.
> > For reasons obscure, at some level I'm completely convinced
> > that EXTERNAL_FILE_DIRECTORY works like the UDF directory -
> > probably it should.
> >
>
>If it will - can this be a per-database setting? I can image a server with
>multiple databases not wanting every external file to be in the same folder
>and only search for the file in a single folder to avoid conflicts.

EXTERNAL_FILE_DIRECTORY is one of those configuration things that
can be specified several times and all instances are used. Your
point about name conflicts is a good one.


Regards,

Ann
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