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To: Scott Ribe <[email protected]>
Cc: Pgsql-admin <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Alternate Datafile Location
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2024 09:25:59 +0930
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Ok, we were going with the approach of the Postgres software (cluster)
being on the root filesystem then creating databases with data file storage
on an alternate filesystem.
It's sounding like the better approach would be to install the Postgres
software (cluster with initdb) on a filesystem other than root. Do I have
that right?
On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 9:17 AM Scott Ribe <[email protected]>
wrote:
> You should take a step back and read the basic documentation on PG
> administration. For instance:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/creating-cluster.html
>
> We (at least I) have been assuming that you wanted to create a new
> database cluster, to run a server against that storage, using initdb. Using
> an already running server to put data elsewhere, using createdb is
> different, and requires that you create a tablespace first:
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/16/manage-ag-tablespaces.html
>
>
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