Re: Is there an easy and safe way to migrate a database to a new tablespace?

From: "Scott Marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "David Young" <randomfire(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Is there an easy and safe way to migrate a database to a new tablespace?
Date: 2007-12-03 21:22:05
Message-ID: dcc563d10712031322v5bf57efcj7060881beb67504a@mail.gmail.com
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On Nov 26, 2007 3:05 PM, David Young <randomfire(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently converted to using a postgresql engine that support tablespaces.
> There's a database that I would like to move to a new tablespace for
> performance reasons. What is the safe and correct way of doing this? The
> documentation is a bit sketchy on this.

I think you'd have to first set a new default_tablespace for the db,
then you'd have to write a script to go through each object and move
it with an alter (table|index) to the new tablespace.

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