Re: How to find data directory - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Ken Hill
Subject Re: How to find data directory
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Msg-id 1134955761.7555.9.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: How to find data directory  (Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@commandprompt.com>)
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There they are:

csalgorithm=# SELECT oid,datname FROM pg_database;
  oid  |   datname
-------+-------------
 17142 | testdb
 17143 | csalgorithm
     1 | template1
 17141 | template0
(4 rows)

Thank you for the help!

On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 03:01 +0200, Devrim GUNDUZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Ken Hill wrote:
>
> > I have created two database named 'testdb' and 'csalgorithm'. How do I
> > find these databases? I was expecting the databases to be subdirectories
> > under the database directory (e.g. /var/lib/postresql/7.4/main/testdb
> > and /var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main/csalgorithm).
>
> First run these commands:
>
> SELECT oid,datname FROM pg_database;
>
> This will prompt you the oid and the corresponding database name. Say the
> oid for the csalgorithm is 41030. Now cd to
> /var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main/base/41030
>
> But don't expect to see ascii database format there. :)
>
> Regards,


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