Re: [GENERAL] alter table set tablespace

2010-08-03 Thread ChronicDB Community Team
Jeff, One way to address the indefinite locking due to an ALTER TABLE statement for PostgreSQL is to use ChronicDB. It allows you to apply such a schema change live, without bringing down the database. The space requirements for applying the live schema change would be to have at least twice as m

Re: [GENERAL] alter table set tablespace

2010-07-27 Thread Jeff Davis
On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 20:38 +, Leif Gunnar Erlandsen wrote: > I want to move one table from one disk to another. > > In order to do this I wanted to create a new tablespace on the new disks and > issue the command alter table tablename set tablespace tablespacename; > > The question is, will

[GENERAL] alter table set tablespace

2010-07-27 Thread Leif Gunnar Erlandsen
I want to move one table from one disk to another. In order to do this I wanted to create a new tablespace on the new disks and issue the command alter table tablename set tablespace tablespacename; The question is, will this in any way affect the database which is in heavily use? The table in q