Re: Symlinking (specific) tables to different Drives - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mikko Partio
Subject Re: Symlinking (specific) tables to different Drives
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Msg-id 2ca799770709032149n43f6c45ar1e476be74e95b55a@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Symlinking (specific) tables to different Drives  (Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>)
Responses Re: Symlinking (specific) tables to different Drives  (Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>)
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On 9/4/07, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 07:09 +0300, Mikko Partio wrote:
>
>
> On 9/4/07, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com> wrote:
>         Hi,
>
>         I'm running out of space on one of my partitions and I still
>         have not
>         gotten all the data loaded yet. I've read that one could
>         symlink the
>         pg_pg_xlog directory to another drive. I'm wondering if I can
>         do the
>         same for specific tables as well.
>
>
> Create another tablespace to the new location and the ALTER TABLE ...
> TABLESPACE newtablespace.
>

OOooohhh... I didn't know one could use tablespaces like that. (I mean,
I did read the docs, but it just didn't register that it _can_ do
something like that)

additional question.. do I need to change the search_path?

No (changing tablespaces does not change your logical schema).
 
Regards

MP

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