Re: correcting tablespaces inside data folder

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On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Duarte Carreira <dncarreira(at)gmail(dot)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(at)hagander(dot)net>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Duarte Carreira <dncarreira(at)gmail(dot)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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>

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