Re: Moving tablespaces

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-documentation <pgsql-docs(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Moving tablespaces
Date: 2011-12-04 16:12:17
Message-ID: 201112041612.pB4GCHt06225@momjian.us
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Magnus Hagander wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 00:43, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Do we have any documentation about how to move a tablespace to a new
> > directory? ?If not, I think we should write some.
>
> Do we have any support for doing it? (Yes, it works, but anything that
> requires manual hacking of system catalogs really can't be considered
> supported, can it?)

True. It is something we just don't support? They have to dump, edit
the dump, and reload, to change a tablespace directory? Yikes. Is that
the state we are in? Has no one complained about this? They just use
symlinks?

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