Re: correcting tablespaces inside data folder

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On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Duarte Carreira <dncarreira@gmail.com> wrote:

Magnus,

You mean changing the symlinks inside pg_tblspc?

Yes. As long as the server is shut down, you can modify those symlinks.

 

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 5:49 PM Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Duarte Carreira <dncarreira@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello.

Yes I'm one of those guys who only recently realized the mess of having tablespaces inside the data directory... now I want to use pg_upgrade and it will make things even worse...

Does anyone have a best approach to this problem? Fastest/safest?

pg 9.3.x on win

If you can afford to shut the server down, the easiest is to shut it down, move the tablespaces (with mv, and as long as you stay within the partition it should be almost instant), update the symlinks to point to the new location, and start it up again. 

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