Re: Separating Databases on Different Partitions

Ah, fair enough, table spaces are definitely the way to go then. I did
use it about a year ago to put one database on a different physical
drive, but I haven't used it for ages so cannot remember how to set it up.

Andy

Aaron Bono wrote:
> I think the tablespace option will work best - I will check it out. I
> do not give the users control of the database since I do the
> development, I just need a way to allocate the space and charge for
> space used. Since cPanel monitors user space, I don't want to rely on
> having to query the database to get size information - I would have to
> put together separate scripts to watch space usage which I would
> rather not do.
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
> -Aaron
>
> On 5/30/06, *Andy Shellam* <andy(dot)shellam(at)mailnetwork(dot)co(dot)uk
> <mailto:andy(dot)shellam(at)mailnetwork(dot)co(dot)uk> > wrote:
>
> Hi Aaron
>
>
>
> I believe you could probably do this best with table spaces.
> You'll have to look it up in the documentation as I haven't done
> it for a while.
>
> You symlink a directory under <pgdata>/pg_tblspc to another
> physical directory (eg. Your user's home/db directory), then when
> you create the database, set its default table space to which
> directory you create.
>
>
>
> There is a downside in that the user could create a new table and
> override the table space to that of another user.
>
>
>
> You could always query the system catalogues for the usage for
> each user's database and add that to the physical size of their
> home directory?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Andy
>
>
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