2009/6/25 Jack W <dbdevelop2...@gmail.com> > > Maybe for maintainence purpose or schema change. For example as you > mentioned above, if using several tablespaces located on different hard > drives. If one hard drive is damaged, the database on that hard drive will > not be available. How about other databases managed by the same database > server instance? >
interesting questions... If I were you, I would just verify this by creating separate partition, putting a tablespace there, creating a database in this tablespace, pgbench'ing this database continuosly, and running umount --force on the partition. > I need to shut down all the databases to do mainatainence, right? > depends on the kind of maintenance. -- Filip Rembiałkowski JID,mailto:filip.rembialkow...@gmail.com http://filip.rembialkowski.net/