Re: ALTER TABLE with Tablespace? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gavin Sherry
Subject Re: ALTER TABLE with Tablespace?
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.58.0406192153550.15947@linuxworld.com.au
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In response to ALTER TABLE with Tablespace?  (Tatsuo Ishii <t-ishii@sra.co.jp>)
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On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:

> It seems ALTER TABLE does not support table space. I think this is
> neccessary because:
>
> 1) if a data disk if full, users need to move table to another table
>    spaces.
>
> 2) if performance hits, users could move the table which is likely a
>    bottle neck to another table space.
>
> I know that pg_dump+pg_restore will do the trick, but I think
> tablespace can handle this better.

I'm going to try and find some time to do this over the next few days. I
figure it will mostly look like cluster() so shouldn't be too time
consuming. I agree that it would be very useful, particularly for those
upgrading to 7.5 and wanting to make use of tablespaces.

Thanks,

Gavin


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