"Campbell, Lance" <lance@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I have started to define tablespaces on different disks. Is there any > performance issues related to referencing tablespaces on different disks > with symbolic links? By using symbolic links to tablespaces can I then > stop the database and move a particular tablespace from one location to > another without causing a problem? This would seem to give a lot of > flexibility to the location of tablespaces. A tablespace already is a symbolic link --- read http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/storage.html Putting another one into the path will eat cycles and doesn't seem like it could buy anything. regards, tom lane
