Waiting for 9.6 – Allow per-tablespace effective_io_concurrency

On 8th of September, Alvaro Herrera committed patch:

Allow per-tablespace effective_io_concurrency
 
Per discussion, nowadays it is possible to have tablespaces that have
wildly different I/O characteristics from others.  Setting different
effective_io_concurrency parameters for those has been measured to
improve performance.
 
Author: Julien Rouhaud
Reviewed by: Andres Freund

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Waiting for 9.4 – pg_basebackup: Add support for relocating tablespaces

On 22nd of February, Peter Eisentraut committed patch:

pg_basebackup: Add support for relocating tablespaces
 
Tablespaces can be relocated in plain backup mode by specifying one or
more -T olddir=newdir options.
 
Author: Steeve Lennmark
Reviewed-by: Peter Eisentraut

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Waiting for 9.4 – Tablespace changes

On 18th of January, Stephen Frost committed patch:

Add ALTER TABLESPACE ... MOVE command
 
This adds a 'MOVE' sub-command to ALTER TABLESPACE which allows moving sets of
objects from one tablespace to another.  This can be extremely handy and avoids
a lot of error-prone scripting.  ALTER TABLESPACE ... MOVE will only move
objects the user owns, will notify the user if no objects were found, and can
be used to move ALL objects or specific types of objects (TABLES, INDEXES, or
MATERIALIZED VIEWS).

He followed it, with another commit:

Add CREATE TABLESPACE ... WITH ... Options
 
Tablespaces have a few options which can be set on them to give PG hints
as to how the tablespace behaves (perhaps it's faster for sequential
scans, or better able to handle random access, etc).  These options were
only available through the ALTER TABLESPACE command.
 
This adds the ability to set these options at CREATE TABLESPACE time,
removing the need to do both a CREATE TABLESPACE and ALTER TABLESPACE to
get the correct options set on the tablespace.
 
Vik Fearing, reviewed by Michael Paquier.

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