From: Jim C. Nasby <jnasby@pervasive.com>
To: Markus Schaber <schabi@logix-tt.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL SQL List <pgsql-sql@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Migrating a Database to a new tablespace
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 19:15:53 -0500
Message-ID: <20060425001553.GM64695@pervasive.com> (raw)
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That means that the tablespace directory isn't empty.
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:34:33PM +0200, Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I now pulled the plug, migrated all databases via "create database ...
> tempate olddatabase tablespace newts" to new tablespaces, one for each
> database, and dropped all old databases that contained references to the
> tablespace. Pgadmin3 also shows that the tablespace is not referenced by
> anything.
>
> But I cannot drop it, I get the following message:
>
> postgres=# drop TABLESPACE foo;
> ERROR: tablespace "foo" is not empty
>
>
> It seems that the whole tablespace thing is not yet 100% waterproof,
> good that this did happen on a developer machine, and not on a
> production machine.
>
> Thanks for your patience,
> Markus
>
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