Re: What to do if space for database decrease and no additional hard drive is possible?

From: Vincenzo Romano <vincenzo(dot)romano(at)notorand(dot)it>
To: "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: What to do if space for database decrease and no additional hard drive is possible?
Date: 2010-07-26 12:09:23
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2010/7/26 A. Kretschmer <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>:
> In response to Ivan Voras :
>> * buy external storage (NAS, or even an external USB drive), move the
>> database to it
>
> buy external USB-Drive, and create a new tablespace, and move some large
> table into this new tablespace and/or use the new tablespace for new
> tables. You can also use table-partitioning with different tablespaces.

Table space on a USB drive?
You must be really sinking for this very option!
I'd rather move everything else from the crowded partition onto the USB drive,
as I would suppose that the database (performance and reliability) is
more important by far ...

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Vincenzo Romano
NotOrAnd Information Technologies
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