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

From: "A(dot) Kretschmer" <andreas(dot)kretschmer(at)schollglas(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Re: What to do if space for database decrease and no additional hard drive is possible?
Date: 2010-07-26 12:22:15
Message-ID: 20100726122215.GJ1774@a-kretschmer.de
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In response to Bill Thoen :
>
>
> A. Kretschmer wrote:
> >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.
> >
> Can you then unmount that USB drive without causing any damage to the
> other databases?

No!

Andreas
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