Re: How to move pg_xlog to another drive on - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From K C Lau
Subject Re: How to move pg_xlog to another drive on
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Msg-id 6.2.1.2.0.20061205115413.03e70820@localhost
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In response to How to move pg_xlog to another drive on Windows????  (Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@Askesis.nl>)
List pgsql-performance
You can also use the freeware junction utility from
http://www.sysinternals.com as we do on Win 2K, XP and 2003.

After installing it, shutdown pg, move pg_xlog to another drive, create
junction as pg_xlog to point to new directory, then restart pg.

Cheers,
KC.

At 03:04 06/12/05, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>On 12/4/06, Joost Kraaijeveld <J.Kraaijeveld@askesis.nl> wrote:
>>How can I move pg_xlog to another drive on Windows? In Linux I can use a
>>symlink, but how do I that on windows?
>
>you can possibly attempt it with junction points.  good luck:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/205524
>
>merlin
>
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