Re: tablespace restore

Hello

I use postgres 8.3.12 on machineA and 8.4.5 on machineB.

On machineA I have created a tablespace with
CREATE TABLESPACE tablelocation_name LOCATION '/my/location/machineA';

I then created a database with
CREATE DATABASE db_name TABLESPACE tablelocation;

I created tables, inserted data and created indexes.

I now want to "move" the db from '/my/location/machineA' of machine A to '/other/location/machineB' of machine B. My question is how I can do a filesystem backup/restore (I want to move the indexes too - too time consuming to reindex).

Machine B already has a postgres running, and postgres on machine B already has other databases. During this process I have no problem of shutting down postgres.


I have tried some things unsuccessfully:
1)  - stop postgres on machine B
   - copy dir of tablelocation of machine A to '/other/location/machineB' on machine B
   - start postgres on machine B
   - CREATE TABLESPACE tablelocation_name LOCATION '/other/location/machineB';
     ERROR:  directory "/other/location/machineB" is not empty


Regards
Vangelis

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