Re: Is there an easy and safe way to migrate a database to a new tablespace? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Is there an easy and safe way to migrate a database to a new tablespace?
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Msg-id dcc563d10712031322v5bf57efcj7060881beb67504a@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Is there an easy and safe way to migrate a database to a new tablespace?  ("David Young" <randomfire@gmail.com>)
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On Nov 26, 2007 3:05 PM, David Young <randomfire@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently converted to using a postgresql engine that support tablespaces.
> There's a database that I would like to move to a new tablespace for
> performance reasons.  What is the safe and correct way of doing this?  The
> documentation is a bit sketchy on this.

I think you'd have to first set a new default_tablespace for the db,
then you'd have to write a script to go through each object and move
it with an alter (table|index) to the new tablespace.

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