You mean we can have only single default tablespace for a database but the 
database objects can be created on different-2 tablespaces?

Can you please share the Doc URL for your suggestions given in trail mail.

Please correct me.

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From: Christophe Pettus <x...@thebuild.com> 
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 11:57 AM
To: Daulat Ram <daulat....@exponential.com>
Cc: amul sul <sula...@gmail.com>; pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Can we have multiple tablespaces with in a database.



> On Feb 20, 2020, at 22:23, Daulat Ram <daulat....@exponential.com> wrote:
> 
> That will be great if you  share any doc where it’s mentioned that we can’t 
> use multiple tablespace for a single database. I have to assist my Dev team 
> regarding tablespaces.

A single PostgreSQL database can have any number of tablespaces.  Each table 
has to be in one specific tablespace, although a table can be in one tablespace 
and its indexes in a different one.

If a PostgreSQL table is partitioned, each partition can be in a different 
tablespace.

Oracle "style" tends to involve a lot of tablespaces in a database; this is 
much less commonly done in PostgreSQL.  In general, you only need to create 
tablespace in a small number of circumstances:

(a) You need more space than the current database volume allows, and moving the 
database to a larger volume is inconvenient;
(b) You have multiple volumes with significantly different access 
characteristics (like an HDD array and some SSDs), and you want to distribute 
database objects to take advantage of that (for example, put commonly-used 
large indexes on the SSDs).

PostgreSQL tablespaces do increase the administrative overhead of the database, 
and shouldn't be created unless there is a compelling need for them./

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