Re: correcting tablespaces inside data folder

Magnus,
You mean changing the symlinks inside pg_tblspc?

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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