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From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: how to add a new data partition
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Msg-id 1170803834.5451.115.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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In response to how to add a new data partition  ("Karthikeyan Sundaram" <skarthi98@hotmail.com>)
Responses Re: how to add a new data partition  ("Karthikeyan Sundaram" <skarthi98@hotmail.com>)
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On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 15:46, Karthikeyan Sundaram wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>   We are using postgres 8.0.1 on our production and 8.2 on our development.
> The linuix partition is getting full where the database resides.  In few
> weeks our partition will ran out of space so the database will also run out
> of space. We have added another HDD of 300GB.  Now my question is, how will
> I point the database to the new partition along with the old one. Do I need
> to create a symbolic link to the exitisting DB?
>
>    Adding a new tablespace doesn't solve the issue as there are many tables
> in the old tablespace.  Is there a way to extend the tablespace to the new
> partition like in Oracle.

So,

alter table ... set tablespace new_tablespace

doesn't work for you in this circumstance?

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