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Re: Tablespace size in TB

Jan Karremans <karremans.ja@gmail.com>

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From: Jan Karremans <karremans.ja@gmail.com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Cc: masheed ullah <masheedullah@gmail.com>, Thiemo Kellner <thiemo@gelassene-pferde.biz>, pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2026-05-03T12:25:26Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
My thinking would be to have the different directories on different tiers of storage.

Cheers,
Jan

> On 3 May 2026, at 14:21, Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2026-05-03 at 14:10 +0200, Jan Karremans wrote:
>> Contrary to Oracle, a table space in PostgreSQL is a directory. And not a logical abstraction.
>> Moving tables from one table space to another becomes so much easier by that.
> 
> I am confused.  Yes, if you have more than a single (default) tablespace,
> moving tables between tablespaces becomes possible and hence easier.
> But why would you want to move tables between tablespaces in the first place?
> 
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe