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From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: deleting db cluster
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Msg-id 1280849606.2025.0.camel@jd-desktop.iso-8859-1.charter.com
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In response to deleting db cluster  (Ulas Albayrak <ulas.albayrak@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 16:15 +0200, Ulas Albayrak wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Linux/Debian machine running postgres 8.3 and I need to
> remove a database cluster that I created with the "initdb" command. Is
> it enough to just delete the folder in which the cluster resides on
> the filesystem, or does it require some additional actions?

If you remove the data directory (the folder you specifified with
initdb) then the database is gone.

JD

>
> Regards
> --
> Ulas Albayrak
> ulas.albayrak@gmail.com
>

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