Re: Postgres size greater than 1TB

Steve Midgley <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:38:00 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.novice,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.sql
Message-ID <CAJexoSLYLB9QouRsTdxxLYtBY8Pm0hcOM0ynDH08ozT6WmMdSw@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 8:33 AM Rossi, Maria <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
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> In the past, our postgres cluster data_directory is a file system that is
> < 1TB
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> Our postgresconf.cfg has this:
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> data_directory = '/dba/psg/gp08/pg_data'
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> Now,  we need a new cluster that needs more than 1TB (Unix has a limit of
> 1TB for file systems)
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> Any suggestion on how to handle this?
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> Can I specify more than 1 path in  my data_directory?
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> Can I create a tablespace in a new file system/directory?
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1TB seems incredibly small these days as a file system limit - as Jesper
says. If you're on a disk partition system with 1TB file limits (let alone
for the whole file system!), you should consider upgrading your disk array
and file system to a modern partition scheme, of which there are many
choices on Linux/Unix type systems.