Re: correcting tablespaces inside data folder

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 6:15 PM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

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> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Duarte Carreira <dncarreira(at)gmail(dot)com>
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>> Magnus,
>> You mean changing the symlinks inside pg_tblspc?
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> Yes. As long as the server is shut down, you can modify those symlinks.
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Ok, I'll try on my laptop and see how it goes.
Thanks.

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>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 5:49 PM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Duarte Carreira <dncarreira(at)gmail(dot)com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Hello.
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>>>> 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...
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>>>> Does anyone have a best approach to this problem? Fastest/safest?
>>>>
>>>> pg 9.3.x on win
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>>> 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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