Re: robust way of moving tables to a different disk??

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Sam Mortimer <sam(dot)mortimer(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: robust way of moving tables to a different disk??
Date: 2004-12-16 16:19:22
Message-ID: 25213.1103213962@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Sam Mortimer <sam(dot)mortimer(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> I'd like to move some tables from a particular database onto a
> different set of disks. However, I can't see any robust way of
> achieving this.

PG 8.0 can do this using tablespaces. There isn't any particularly
nice solution in earlier versions. If you want to move an entire
*database*, you can do it with the "alternate locations" feature,
but not table-by-table.

regards, tom lane

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