Identifying index files - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From David Rickard
Subject Identifying index files
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Msg-id 5.2.1.1.0.20030908105409.00ab4b60@mail.gtscompanies.com
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We're building a PostGreSQL 7.3.4 system; we want to place database index files on an external drive (for security and backup robustness); we have seen in the documentation that is is possible to move the index files to a new directory (after they are created) and making symbolic links to their new location.  Our problem is distinguishing the index files from data files;  does PostGreSQL have a naming convention for the index files?  Or is there any particular content we could grep for to identify these files?

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