Re: Question relating to database space and adding partition

Karthikeyan Sundaram wrote:
> 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 are added another partition of
> 300GB.  Now my question is, how will I point the database to the new
> partition along with the old one.
>
>   In oracle when we add a datafile, we can tell the location.  I don't
> know how to do this in postgres.
>
>   Can somebody help me?


The easiest way would be to create a new tablespace:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/manage-ag-tablespaces.html

>
> Regards
> skarthi
>
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