Re: Tablespace size in TB

masheed ullah <masheedullah@gmail.com>

From: masheed ullah <masheedullah@gmail.com>
To: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at>
Cc: Jan Karremans <karremans.ja@gmail.com>, Thiemo Kellner <thiemo@gelassene-pferde.biz>, pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2026-05-03T12:26:45Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Just to check like Oracle, parallelism works well with multiple tablespaces.
Moving tables/ indexes to multiple tablespaces to use the parallelism to
boost the backup speed. With a single tablespace, parallelism will not work.

On Sun, May 3, 2026 at 3:21 PM 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
>