Re: Tablespace size in TB

From: Jan Karremans <karremans(dot)ja(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: masheed ullah <masheedullah(at)gmail(dot)com>, Thiemo Kellner <thiemo(at)gelassene-pferde(dot)biz>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Tablespace size in TB
Date: 2026-05-03 12:25:26
Message-ID: 86590390-F0A6-448A-985A-AA7CCC5D9C16@gmail.com
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My thinking would be to have the different directories on different tiers of storage.

Cheers,
Jan

> On 3 May 2026, at 14:21, Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2026-05-03 at 14:10 +0200, Jan Karremans wrote:
>> Contrary to Oracle, a table space in PostgreSQL is a directory. And not a logical abstraction.
>> Moving tables from one table space to another becomes so much easier by that.
>
> I am confused. Yes, if you have more than a single (default) tablespace,
> moving tables between tablespaces becomes possible and hence easier.
> But why would you want to move tables between tablespaces in the first place?
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe

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