Re: Restore postgresql data directory to tablespace on new host? Or swap tablespaces?

On 2/15/2014 10:15 AM, Antman, Jason (CMG-Atlanta) wrote:
> I also asked this question on dba.stackexchange.com, where it received
> a very detailed enumeration of the associated problems from Craig Ringer:
>
http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/58896/restore-postgres-data-tablespace-to-new-tablespace-at-new-mount-point/58967?noredirect=1#58967
>
> Perhaps there's a postgres internals expert around, someone intimitely
> familiar with pg_xlog/pg_clog/pg_control, who can comment on whether
> it's possible to take the on-disk files from a single database in a
> single tablespace, and make them usable by a different postgres
> server, running multiple databases?

Craig's answer covers all the bases, quite accurately.    Because you
don't like it, you think someone else is going to give you some magic to
make all that go away?



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