Re: Storage location of temporary files - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Sam Mason
Subject Re: Storage location of temporary files
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Msg-id 20081031121152.GF2459@frubble.xen.chris-lamb.co.uk
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In response to Storage location of temporary files  (Christian Schröder <cs@deriva.de>)
Responses Re: Storage location of temporary files  (Aaron <aaron@chasingnuts.com>)
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:01:29AM +0100, Christian Schrrrder wrote:
> So I would like
> to use a faster disk for these temporary files, too, but I could not
> find where the temporary files are located. Is there a separate
> directory? I have found a "pgsql_tmp" directory inside of the database
> directories ("base/<oid>/pgsql_tmp"). Is this what I'm looking for?

Yes, I believe it's accepted practice to replace this directory with a
symlink.  I've done this before and it's behaved as I'd expect.


  Sam

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