Skip to content
Projects
Groups
Snippets
Help
Loading...
Help
Support
Keyboard shortcuts
?
Submit feedback
Contribute to GitLab
Sign in
Toggle navigation
P
Postgres FD Implementation
Project overview
Project overview
Details
Activity
Releases
Repository
Repository
Files
Commits
Branches
Tags
Contributors
Graph
Compare
Issues
0
Issues
0
List
Boards
Labels
Milestones
Merge Requests
0
Merge Requests
0
CI / CD
CI / CD
Pipelines
Jobs
Schedules
Analytics
Analytics
CI / CD
Repository
Value Stream
Wiki
Wiki
Snippets
Snippets
Members
Members
Collapse sidebar
Close sidebar
Activity
Graph
Create a new issue
Jobs
Commits
Issue Boards
Open sidebar
Abuhujair Javed
Postgres FD Implementation
Commits
ade8f5c8
Commit
ade8f5c8
authored
Oct 29, 2004
by
Neil Conway
Browse files
Options
Browse Files
Download
Email Patches
Plain Diff
Minor improvements to the tablespace documentation.
parent
ee69be44
Changes
1
Hide whitespace changes
Inline
Side-by-side
Showing
1 changed file
with
28 additions
and
27 deletions
+28
-27
doc/src/sgml/manage-ag.sgml
doc/src/sgml/manage-ag.sgml
+28
-27
No files found.
doc/src/sgml/manage-ag.sgml
View file @
ade8f5c8
<!--
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/manage-ag.sgml,v 2.3
4 2004/09/30 02:40:23
neilc Exp $
$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/manage-ag.sgml,v 2.3
5 2004/10/29 02:11:18
neilc Exp $
-->
<chapter id="managing-databases">
...
...
@@ -347,21 +347,22 @@ dropdb <replaceable class="parameter">dbname</replaceable>
</para>
<para>
By using tablespaces, a
database administrator can control the disk
layout of a <productname>PostgreSQL</> installation. This is useful in
at least two ways. Firstly, if the partition or volume on which the cluster
was initialized runs out of space and cannot be extended logically
or otherwise, a tablespace can be created on a different partition
and used
until the system can be reconfigured.
By using tablespaces, a
n administrator can control the disk layout
of a <productname>PostgreSQL</> installation. This is useful in at
least two ways. First, if the partition or volume on which the
cluster was initialized runs out of space and cannot be extended,
a tablespace can be created on a different partition and used
until the system can be reconfigured.
</para>
<para>
Secondly, tablespaces allow a database administrator to arrange data
locations based on the usage patterns of database objects. For
example, an index which is very heavily used can be placed on very fast,
highly available disk, such as an expensive solid state device. At the same
time a table storing archived data which is rarely used or not performance
critical could be stored on a less expensive, slower disk system.
Second, tablespaces allow an administrator to use knowledge of the
usage pattern of database objects to optimize performance. For
example, an index which is very heavily used can be placed on a
very fast, highly available disk, such as an expensive solid state
device. At the same time a table storing archived data which is
rarely used or not performance critical could be stored on a less
expensive, slower disk system.
</para>
<para>
...
...
@@ -377,14 +378,14 @@ CREATE TABLESPACE fastspace LOCATION '/mnt/sda1/postgresql/data';
</para>
<note>
<para>
There is usually not much point in making more than one
tablespace per logical filesystem, since you can'
t control the location
of individual files within a logical filesystem. However,
<productname>PostgreSQL</> does not enforce any such limitation, and
indeed it'
s not directly aware of the filesystem boundaries on your
system. It just stores files in the directories you tell it to use.
</para>
<para>
There is usually not much point in making more than one
tablespace per logical filesystem, since you canno
t control the location
of individual files within a logical filesystem. However,
<productname>PostgreSQL</> does not enforce any such limitation, and
indeed it i
s not directly aware of the filesystem boundaries on your
system. It just stores files in the directories you tell it to use.
</para>
</note>
<para>
...
...
@@ -416,17 +417,17 @@ CREATE TABLE foo(i int) TABLESPACE space1;
</para>
<para>
A schema does not in itself occupy any storage (other than a
system
catalog entry), so assigning a tablespace to a schema does not in itself
do anything. What this actually does is to set a default tablespace
for tables later created within the schema. If
A schema does not in itself occupy any storage (other than a
system catalog entry), so assigning a schema to a tablespace does
not in itself do anything. What this actually does is to set a
default tablespace
for tables later created within the schema. If
no tablespace is mentioned when creating a schema, it inherits its
default tablespace from the current database.
</para>
<para>
The default
choice of tablespace for an index is the same tablespace
already assigned to the table the index is for
.
The default
tablespace for an index is the tablespace associated
with the table the index is on
.
</para>
<para>
...
...
Write
Preview
Markdown
is supported
0%
Try again
or
attach a new file
Attach a file
Cancel
You are about to add
0
people
to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Cancel
Please
register
or
sign in
to comment