Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3852633CA7 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:26:14 -0300 (ADT) Received: from mail.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.86]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.208.211]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89825-08 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:26:04 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from ulysse.talessa.com (ulysse.talessa.com [85.234.192.2]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB51763517E for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:25:53 -0300 (ADT) Received: from 57.48-244-81.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be ([81.244.48.57] helo=[192.168.1.160]) by ulysse.talessa.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LmUz8-0000Fp-SH for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:25:42 +0100 Subject: Re: Change the place of the WAL files From: Nicolas Michel To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org In-Reply-To: <200903251532.02140.guillaume@lelarge.info> References: <1237988136.6638.26.camel@nm-laptop> <200903251532.02140.guillaume@lelarge.info> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=-wmjIASDG/kR7JdqSsXqR" Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:25:41 +0100 Message-Id: <1237994741.6638.37.camel@nm-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.3 X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.001 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=HTML_MESSAGE=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200903/223 X-Sequence-Number: 31723 --=-wmjIASDG/kR7JdqSsXqR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ok. Thank you. Le mercredi 25 mars 2009 =C3=A0 15:32 +0100, Guillaume Lelarge a =C3=A9crit= : > Le mercredi 25 mars 2009 =C3=A0 14:35:36, Nicolas Michel a =C3=A9crit : > > [...] > > I already have an instance with a database. I want to move the WAL file= s > > to an other hard disk to have a better speed. > > I read that I had to create a symbolic link to do that. Is there anothe= r > > "cleaner" way : an option in the postgres config file?? > > >=20 > No. You really need to use a symbolic link. >=20 >=20 > --=20 > Guillaume. > http://www.postgresqlfr.org > http://dalibo.com >=20 --=-wmjIASDG/kR7JdqSsXqR Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Ok. Thank you.


Le mercredi 25 mars 2009 à 15:32 +0100, Guillaume Lelarge a écrit :
Le mercredi 25 mars 2009 à 14:35:36, Nicolas Michel a écrit :
> [...]
> I already have an instance with a database. I want to move the WAL files
> to an other hard disk to have a better speed.
> I read that I had to create a symbolic link to do that. Is there another
> "cleaner" way : an option in the postgres config file??
>

No. You really need to use a symbolic link.


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