Re: [HACKERS] Extending tablespaces

2006-10-19 Thread Gevik Babakhani
Okay, thank you. On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 15:56 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > Gevik Babakhani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now I am thinking what it would take to give pg the functionality to > > extend tablespaces automatically. > > It's called LVM ... and no, we are not interested in reimplementing

Re: [HACKERS] Extending tablespaces

2006-10-19 Thread Tom Lane
Gevik Babakhani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I am thinking what it would take to give pg the functionality to > extend tablespaces automatically. It's called LVM ... and no, we are not interested in reimplementing filesystem-level functionality ... regards, tom lane

[HACKERS] Extending tablespaces

2006-10-19 Thread Gevik Babakhani
Recently I ran into a "disk full" problem with my database. I had to play with the tablespaces and locations symlinks... until the disk could be cleaned just enough for the database to continue operation. I had plenty of space on another disk but found no *easy* way to humbly ask postgres to contin