From: Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com>
To: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Move base directory to different location
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:25:41 +0100
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Hi Paul,
You are perfectly correct. I just answered very specific to the question.
Regards,
Holger
Am 26.11.20 um 15:05 schrieb Paul Förster:
> Hi Holger,
>
>> On 26. Nov, 2020, at 15:00, Holger Jakobs <holger@jakobs.com> wrote:
>>
>> It is no problem to move the base directory.
>>
>> • stop the database server
>> • move the base directory as a whole to some other location
>> mv /var/lib/pgsql/10/data/base /some/other/location
>> • create a symbolic link pointing to the new location
>> cd /var/lib/pgsql/10/data
>> ln -s /some/other/location/base .
>> • start the database server
>> BTW, an upgrade to a newer major version would be a good idea.
> why not just move the whole database and NOT create a symlink? Then just start the database in the new PGDATA? Of course you'd need to reconfigure your PGDATA in this case but I consider it more clean than running a database cluster on a symlink.
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
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