Re: Can Postgres 8.x start if some disks containing tablespaces are not mounted?

[Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>]

"Morris Goldstein" <morris(dot)x(dot)goldstein(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Suppose I have a database with $PGDATA on /dev/sda, and a tablespace
> directory on /dev/sdb. Will Postgres start successfully if /dev/sda is
> mounted and /dev/sdb is not? If not, why not?

It will start, but you will have unpleasant failures when you try to use
tables in the secondary tablespace ... note that if autovacuum is on,
that is likely to happen even without any explicit action on your part.

			regards, tom lane