Re: how to add a new data partition

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Phillip Smith <phillip(dot)smith(at)weatherbeeta(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Karthikeyan Sundaram <skarthi98(at)hotmail(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: how to add a new data partition
Date: 2007-02-06 22:59:51
Message-ID: 25273.1170802791@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Phillip Smith <phillip(dot)smith(at)weatherbeeta(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> Perhaps a LVM group would be appropriate in this situation if you have
> the luxury of being able to implement that somehow...

Indeed, the existence of LVM and similar tools is exactly why we don't
deem it pressing to come up with Oracle-like tablespace management.
If you want a tablespace to span multiple physical volumes, use LVM.
The Postgres project tries to avoid re-inventing perfectly good wheels ...

regards, tom lane

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