Re: what is the solution like oracle DB's datafile

ne 30. 1. 2022 v 18:13 odesílatel Yudianto Prasetyo
<mr(dot)yudianto(at)gmail(dot)com> napsal:
>
> Hello,
>
> dafafile this oracle like this example. can be added to another hdd.
>
> ALTER TABLESPACE lmtbsb
> ADD DATAFILE '/u02/oracle/data/lmtbsb02.dbf' SIZE 1M;
>
> ALTER TABLESPACE lmtbsb
> ADD DATAFILE '/u03/oracle/data/lmtbsb02.dbf' SIZE 1M;
>
> ALTER TABLESPACE lmtbsb
> ADD DATAFILE 'e:\data\lmtbsb02.dbf' SIZE 1M;
>
> ALTER TABLESPACE lmtbsb
> ADD DATAFILE 'f:\data2\lmtbsb02.dbf' SIZE 1M;
>
> i understand about that LVM solution. it is true that using this method can be done. I'm just asking for a solution at the database level.

Per my understanding, there is no exactly the same feature in
PostgreSQL itself. As mentioned before, it is most likely by design.

> thank you
> Yours faithfully
>
> yudianto
>
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 9:17 PM Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 08:51:02PM +0700, Yudianto Prasetyo wrote:
>> >
>> > thanks for other solutions in the operating system section. LVM, RAID is
>> > indeed one solution to this problem.
>> >
>> > Maybe there is another solution in the postgresql database like the
>> > datafile in oracle DB?
>>
>> As I said I don't know how datafiles in oracle are working. All you have on
>> postgres is tablespaces, default tablespaces and moving relations from one
>> tablespaces to another.
>>
>> In general, postgres doesn't try to reimplement solution to problems that are
>> nicely solved at the operating system level, so if those datafile are
>> reimplementing something similar to LVM, then no postgres doesn't have
>> something like that and probably doesn't want it.