Hi Philip,
Thanks for the reply. Our DB grows very fast. Hence I don't want to
move the exisisting data dir. If I move my data file to the new partition,
I will face the same issue in another month instead of week.
My requirement is to keep the old data directory along with the new
partition.
In Oracle, we can tell the alter database add data file '/new partition'
so the the new partition will take into effect along with the old one.
Is there a similar way in postgres?
Regards
skarthi
From: "Phillip Smith" <phillip.smith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Karthikeyan Sundaram'"
<skarthi98@xxxxxxxxxxx>,<pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] how to add a new data partition
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 08:52:06 +1100
One option if you can have the DB offline for a little while:
1) Shutdown Postgres
2) Move your current data directory to the new partition
3) Update your PGDATA variable, and any scripts that reference it to
reflect
the new data path. You might also like to symlink the old data dir to the
new one.
4) Restart Postgres. pg_ctl -D /new/path/to/data start
That's worked for me several time before.
Cheers,
-p
-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Karthikeyan Sundaram
Sent: Wednesday, 7 February 2007 08:46
To: pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ADMIN] how to add a new data partition
Hi all,
We are using postgres 8.0.1 on our production and 8.2 on our
development.
The linuix partition is getting full where the database resides. In few
weeks our partition will ran out of space so the database will also run out
of space. We have added another HDD of 300GB. Now my question is, how will
I point the database to the new partition along with the old one. Do I need
to create a symbolic link to the exitisting DB?
Adding a new tablespace doesn't solve the issue as there are many
tables
in the old tablespace. Is there a way to extend the tablespace to the new
partition like in Oracle.
Did anybody faced this problem and how did you resolve. Please share
your
thoughts.
Regards
skarthi
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