Re: Moving a table to another directory - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Jaime Casanova
Subject Re: Moving a table to another directory
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Msg-id c2d9e70e0702051903pf281bbdnf9a135902fa62a42@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Moving a table to another directory  ("Ezequiel Luis Pellettieri" <ezequiel.pellettieri@gmail.com>)
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Re: Moving a table to another directory
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> 2007/2/5, Milen A. Radev <milen@radev.net>:
> > Ezequiel Luis Pellettieri написа:
> > > Hi guys I have a big table (25 gb) and a need to move it to another
> > > directory cos i'm out of space.
> > > making a symlik will be ok? or I have to do something else
> > >
> >
> >
> > 1. CREATE TABLESPACE xxx LOCATION 'another_dir'
> > (
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-createtablespace.html);
> >
> > 2. ALTER TABLE big_table SET TABLESPACE xxx;
> >
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-altertable.html
> )
> >
On 2/5/07, Ezequiel Luis Pellettieri <ezequiel.pellettieri@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Milen, does it work on 7.4??
>

oops... your symlink will be ok... use the contrib oid2name to
identify the files corresponding to that table... and maybe the
indexes as well...

what i remember from the ancient era pre-tablespace (2 or 3 years ago)
is that a pg_dump and/or reindex will return all to it's original
state...

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Jaime Casanova

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