Re: rename a cluster - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Subject Re: rename a cluster
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In response to Re: rename a cluster  (Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu>)
Responses Re: rename a cluster  (Ray Stell <stellr@cns.vt.edu>)
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The cluster's "name" is only the file-system's directory path.

You can easily rename this directory, as long as you pass the relevant directory name to pg_ctl's -D parameter (which tells PostgreSQL which database "cluster" to use.)

It goes without saying, don't move the directory while PostgreSQL is running.


Ray Stell wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:36:23PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: 
Ray Stell wrote:   
Is there a method to rename a cluster?     
Clusters don't have names in the first place.   
So, from 16.2 "Creating a Database Cluster"

"...you must initialize a database storage area on disk.
We call this a database cluster."

then, directory = cluster, no?

What I was trying to get at is, is mv of the dir ok or
is there something else that needs to be considered?  Thx.

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