Re: Postgres physical directory structure meaning - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Postgres physical directory structure meaning
Date
Msg-id 20100216144104.GD5330@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Postgres physical directory structure meaning  (S Arvind <arvindwill@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
S Arvind escribió:
> I want to know about the meaning of various directory present in data
> folder. Mostly what will the 'base' folder contains? The reason of this is
> recently in the datafolder 'global' was deleted unknowingly which leads to
> entire DB crash in a second.

"global" contains some system catalogs.  Not terribly critical, but you
need to do quite some work in order to make the system work again
without them.

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