Re: Tablespace size in TB

From: masheed ullah <masheedullah(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: Jan Karremans <karremans(dot)ja(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 12:26:45
Message-ID: CAHr8x_sCFOpufrmTPBF2nOFMyJfWG6EPHMfN+UOiKdfLF_kVdA@mail.gmail.com
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Just to check like Oracle, parallelism works well with multiple tablespaces.
Moving tables/ indexes to multiple tablespaces to use the parallelism to
boost the backup speed. With a single tablespace, parallelism will not work.

On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM 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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