In response to Vincenzo Romano : > 2010/7/26 A. Kretschmer <andreas.kretschmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > In response to Ivan Voras : > >> * buy external storage (NAS, or even an external USB drive), move the > >> database to it > > > > buy external USB-Drive, and create a new tablespace, and move some large > > table into this new tablespace and/or use the new tablespace for new > > tables. You can also use table-partitioning with different tablespaces. > > Table space on a USB drive? > You must be really sinking for this very option! > I'd rather move everything else from the crowded partition onto the USB drive, > as I would suppose that the database (performance and reliability) is > more important by far ... Maybe, depends.... but why not? Maybe there are some big, but rarely used, read-only tables? Regards, Andreas -- Andreas Kretschmer Kontakt: Heynitz: 035242/47150, D1: 0160/7141639 (mehr: -> Header) GnuPG: 0x31720C99, 1006 CCB4 A326 1D42 6431 2EB0 389D 1DC2 3172 0C99 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general