Hi. On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 6:30 PM Duarte Carreira <dncarre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 6:15 PM Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> > wrote: > >> (please don't top-post. It makes it hard to follow discussions) >> >> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 7:05 PM, Duarte Carreira <dncarre...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Magnus, >>> You mean changing the symlinks inside pg_tblspc? >>> >>> >> Yes. As long as the server is shut down, you can modify those symlinks. >> > > Ok, I'll try on my laptop and see how it goes. > Thanks. > Update: everything seems to be working fine. On windows you can't change the symlinks (called junctions on windows). You have to delete them with rd symlimk_id, and then recreate them pointing to the new location with: mklink /J symlink_id path_to_new_location Have to be specially carefull to recreate the symlinks correctly! Thanks again. Duarte > > >> >> >> >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 5:49 PM Magnus Hagander <mag...@hagander.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 6:42 PM, Duarte Carreira <dncarre...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello. >>>>> >>>>> Yes I'm one of those guys who only recently realized the mess of >>>>> having tablespaces inside the data directory... now I want to use >>>>> pg_upgrade and it will make things even worse... >>>>> >>>>> Does anyone have a best approach to this problem? Fastest/safest? >>>>> >>>>> pg 9.3.x on win >>>>> >>>>> >>>> If you can afford to shut the server down, the easiest is to shut it >>>> down, move the tablespaces (with mv, and as long as you stay within the >>>> partition it should be almost instant), update the symlinks to point to the >>>> new location, and start it up again. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Magnus Hagander >>>> Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> >>>> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Magnus Hagander >> Me: https://www.hagander.net/ <http://www.hagander.net/> >> Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/ <http://www.redpill-linpro.com/> >> >
