Re: Move PGdata to a different drive - Mailing list pgsql-general

From David Fetter
Subject Re: Move PGdata to a different drive
Date
Msg-id 20090605143558.GB5929@fetter.org
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In response to Re: Move PGdata to a different drive  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Move PGdata to a different drive
List pgsql-general
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:11:29AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Jennifer Trey wrote:
> > Hi,
> > What file should I be working with?
>
> Just shut down the server and move the directory whever you want and
> restart the server.  There are no file contents that need changing.
> Of course should adjust your scripts or PGDATA environment variable.

Another way to do this is to mount the drive at the place where PGDATA
used to be.  The down side of this approach is that it only works if
you want your PGDATA at the root of that new drive.

Cheers,
David.
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