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pg_xlog

From
Leszek.Dukwicz@brebank.com.pl
Date:

Hi,

Could you please send me an advice  how to configure Postgres database

With non standard pg_xlog directory location i.e. on other (non db) physical disk ???

 

Leszek Dukwicz

 

Re: pg_xlog

From
Sam Barnett-Cormack
Date:
On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 Leszek.Dukwicz@brebank.com.pl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Could you please send me an advice  how to configure Postgres database
>
> With non standard pg_xlog directory location i.e. on other (non db) physical
> disk ???

One word: symlinks.

--

Sam Barnett-Cormack
Software Developer                           |  Student of Physics & Maths
UK Mirror Service (http://www.mirror.ac.uk)  |  Lancaster University

Re: pg_xlog

From
"Scott Marlowe"
Date:
On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 04:31, Leszek.Dukwicz@brebank.com.pl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could you please send me an advice  how to configure Postgres database
>
> With non standard pg_xlog directory location i.e. on other (non db)
> physical disk ???

Easy:

su - postgres
pg_ctl stop
cd $PGDATA
mkdir /mnt/drive2/pg_xlog
cp -p pg_xlog/* /mnt/drive2/pg_xlog/
mv pg_xlog pg_xlog_old
ln -s /mnt/drive2/pg_xlog pg_xlog
pg_ctl start