(please don't top-post. It makes it hard to follow discussions) On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Duarte Carreira <dncarre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Magnus, > You mean changing the symlinks inside pg_tblspc? > > Yes. As long as the server is shut down, you can modify those symlinks. > > On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 5:49 PM Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> > wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Duarte Carreira <dncarre...@gmail.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. >> >> -- >> Magnus Hagander >> Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> >> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/> >> > -- Magnus Hagander Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/>
