Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.208.211]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C45635104 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:32:07 -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 76012-03 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:31:55 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from sd-2317.dedibox.fr (sd-2317.dedibox.fr [88.191.17.192]) by mail.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A1C6634A04 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:32:04 -0300 (ADT) Received: from laptop.localnet (ASte-Genev-Bois-153-1-78-71.w86-203.abo.wanadoo.fr [86.203.224.71]) by sd-2317.dedibox.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E3F90AA34; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:32:02 +0100 (CET) From: Guillaume Lelarge To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Subject: Re: Change the place of the WAL files Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:32:01 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.1 (Linux/2.6.27-14-generic; KDE/4.2.1; i686; ; ) Cc: Nicolas Michel References: <1237988136.6638.26.camel@nm-laptop> In-Reply-To: <1237988136.6638.26.camel@nm-laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200903251532.02140.guillaume@lelarge.info> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=none X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200903/222 X-Sequence-Number: 31722 Le mercredi 25 mars 2009 =E0 14:35:36, Nicolas Michel a =E9crit : > [...] > 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. =2D-=20 Guillaume. http://www.postgresqlfr.org http://dalibo.com