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From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe@elevated-dev.com>
To: Ravi Krishna <sravikrishna3@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: How to expand existing table-space
Date: Tue, 26 May 2015 14:11:53 -0600
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On May 26, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Ravi Krishna <sravikrishna3@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I guess one easy way for large tables is to break it up to small
> tables via inheritance and each table assigned to a different
> tablespace.

That’s also a way you could migrate your current table without disrupting production.

Partitioning like that is often done as a performance optimization; but it sounds like you’re proposing that a file system cannot be expected to handle a large table in piece??? I don’t understand that.

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