Sorry, my mistake. Should have asked our Unix support first, before I posted.
Was told 1TB limit is old, we don’t have that issue now.
Sorry.
Maria
From: Steve Midgley <science@misuse.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2018 11:38 AM
To: Rossi, Maria <maria.rossi@jackson.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@lists.postgresql.org; pgsql-novice@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Postgres size greater than 1TB
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Hi,
In the past, our postgres cluster data_directory is a file system that is < 1TB
Our postgresconf.cfg has this:
data_directory = '/dba/psg/gp08/pg_data'
Now, we need a new cluster that needs more than 1TB (Unix has a limit of 1TB for file systems)
Any suggestion on how to handle this?
Can I specify more than 1 path in my data_directory?
Can I create a tablespace in a new file system/directory?
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.