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Subject: Re: Tablespace size in TB
From: Jan Karremans <karremans.ja@gmail.com>
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Date: Sun, 3 May 2026 14:25:26 +0200
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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:
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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?
>=20
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe