Re: Database over multiple drives

From: Ragnar Kjørstad <postgres(at)ragnark(dot)vestdata(dot)no>
To: David Lizano <david(dot)lizano(at)izanet(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Database over multiple drives
Date: 2001-05-31 09:33:43
Message-ID: 20010531113343.G2014@vestdata.no
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On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:37:26AM +0200, David Lizano wrote:
> You can't do it with Postgres. To do it, Postgres must implement
> "tablespaces" to spread the database in different localizations (who can be
> different physical localizations, of course). Then a table can be assigned
> to a tablespace.

Sure you can.
You can move some files to a different drive, and put a symlink in the
original directory.

Or, if you have an operatingsystem that has an logical volume manager,
you can concatenate several disks, use striping or whatever, to get a
logical device that spans several physical devices.

--
Ragnar Kjørstad
Big Storage

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