Re: Database over multiple drives

Has anybody *really* tried this solution ?
Is it safe ?

TIA
Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ragnar Kjørstad" 
To: "David Lizano" 
Cc: 
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: Database over multiple drives


> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:37:26AM +0200, David Lizano wrote:
> > You can't do it with Postgres. To do it, Postgres must implement
> > "tablespaces" to spread the database in different localizations (who can
be
> > different physical localizations, of course). Then a table can be
assigned
> > to a tablespace.
>
> Sure you can.
> You can move some files to a different drive, and put a symlink in the
> original directory.
>
> Or, if you have an operatingsystem that has an logical volume manager,
> you can concatenate several disks, use striping or whatever, to get a
> logical device that spans several physical devices.
>
>
> --
> Ragnar Kjørstad
> Big Storage
>