Re: [GENERAL] Downtime-free 'alter table set tablespace'

2014-05-27 Thread Vincent de Phily
On Friday 23 May 2014 15:12:47 Chris Ernst wrote: On 05/23/2014 08:57 AM, Vincent de Phily wrote: I need to reduce downtime to a minimum, so I can't afford to let alter table set tablespace take an exclusive lock on the table for the 2h it'll take to copy the data. You might look at

[GENERAL] Downtime-free 'alter table set tablespace'

2014-05-23 Thread Vincent de Phily
Hi list, I'm in the process of moving some tables to a new tablespace ahead of disk space issues. I'm on PG 9.1, using streaming replication. I need to reduce downtime to a minimum, so I can't afford to let alter table set tablespace take an exclusive lock on the table for the 2h it'll take

Re: [GENERAL] Downtime-free 'alter table set tablespace'

2014-05-23 Thread Jerry Sievers
Vincent de Phily vincent.deph...@mobile-devices.fr writes: Hi list, I'm in the process of moving some tables to a new tablespace ahead of disk space issues. I'm on PG 9.1, using streaming replication. I need to reduce downtime to a minimum, so I can't afford to let alter table set

Re: [GENERAL] Downtime-free 'alter table set tablespace'

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Ernst
On 05/23/2014 08:57 AM, Vincent de Phily wrote: I need to reduce downtime to a minimum, so I can't afford to let alter table set tablespace take an exclusive lock on the table for the 2h it'll take to copy the data. You might look at pg_repack (https://github.com/reorg/pg_repack). The most