Re: Distributing index's/tables/logs/etc.

Arsalan Zaidi wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'd like to place my indexs on another partition. There's a hint that this
> can be done in one of the docs, but no info as to how one should go about
> doing this...
>
> I can guess which of the directories under 'base' holds my database, but how
> do I recognise and shift the indexs? They're all numbers!

Use /contrib/oid2name to make file numbers to table/database names.
Then shut down the database and symlink indexes to another device.
That's all it takes.

--
  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://candle.pha.pa.us
  pgman@candle.pha.pa.us               |  (610) 853-3000
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026