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From Luca Ferrari
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In response to Creating a new database on a different file system  (Ian Dauncey <Ian.Dauncey@bankzero.co.za>)
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM Ian Dauncey <Ian.Dauncey@bankzero.co.za> wrote:
>
> We have created a few databases on the file system defined in the postgresql.conf, but now I would like to create
anotherdatabase within the same cluster but on a different file system. 
>
> Is this possible and if so, how do we go about it.

create a tablespace on the filesystem you want to use, and then create
the database adding the `WITH TABLESPACE` clause.
See <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/sql-createtablespace.html>

Luca

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