Re: Attaching/detaching tablespaces (or, in general, parts of a DB)

On Apr 7, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Yang Zhang wrote:

> Is it possible to attach or detach parts of a DB (e.g. tablespaces),
> such that I can flexibly move the disks containing the DB tables
> around to different hosts?
>
> The last discussion I could find on this topic is from 2007, and the
> answer was "No":
>
> http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Possible-to-Attach-Detach-Tablespaces-td1885602.html
>
> Wondering if there's been any change to the answer since then.  I can
> alternatively dump/load, which is slower and requires 2x the disk
> space.  Thanks in advance.


No. You can't do that.

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Vibhor Kumar
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