Admin team,
We are upgrading from Postgres 7.4.5 to 8.2.5 in mid January. We are also adding new disks As we go. I am investigating using the new tablespace facility to move our biggest and most accessed Table to the new disk. Here are the statistics. We are running RAID 10 Current database size ------------- 63 GIG Heavy accessed table to move: Table ----------------------- 7.4 GIG 2 indexes ------------------- 3 GIG apiece 2 other indexes ------------- 2.5 GIG apiece Current database disk configuration TOTAL space -------------- 404 GIG TOTAL spindles ----------- 3 TOTAL mirrors ------------ 3 New additional disk configuration TOTAL space ------------ 290 GIG TOTAL spindles ----------- 2 TOTAL mirrors ----------- 2 The choices we see are: 1. Adding the two new spindles to the other three making one huge logical partition And all 350+ tables and 400+ indexes continue to reside there 2. Keeping the two new spindles separate and dedicating the heavy access table And its 4 indexes to it. 3. Keeping the two new spindles separate and dedicating the heavy access table To it, but keeping the 4 indexes on the old partition. I know that maintaining almost 700 GIG of total disk space being utilized by a 63 GIG Database looks like disk-space overkill but we do expect massive growth over the Next 2 - 3 years. Any thoughts / comments would be appreciated. Also are there tools out there that monitor disk I/O and disk speed? Thanks for your time, Mark Steben Senior Database Administrator @utoRevenueT A Dominion Enterprises Company 480 Pleasant Street Suite B200 Lee, MA 01238 413-243-4800 Home Office 413-243-4809 Corporate Fax msteben <blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> @autorevenue.com Visit our new website at <blocked::http://www.autorevenue.com/> www.autorevenue.com IMPORTANT: The information contained in this e-mail message is confidential and is intended only for the named addressee(s). If the reader of this e-mail message is not the intended recipient (or the individual responsible for the delivery of this e-mail message to the intended recipient), please be advised that any re-use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail message is prohibited. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please reply to the sender that you have received this e-mail message in error and then delete it. Thank you. Come Visit Us at NADA! Booth #5735N February 9th - February 12th Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA