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From: Laurenz Albe <[email protected]>
To: Luca Ferrari <[email protected]>
To: Ian Dauncey <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Creating a new database on a different file system
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:18:13 +0100
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On Mon, 2025-03-17 at 15:51 +0100, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM Ian Dauncey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We have created a few databases on the file system defined in the postgresql.conf,
> > but now I would like to create another database within the same cluster but on a
> > different file system.
> > 
> > Is this possible and if so, how do we go about it.
> 
> create a tablespace on the filesystem you want to use, and then create
> the database adding the `WITH TABLESPACE` clause.
> See <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/sql-createtablespace.html;

That is an option, but I would recommend to create a new database cluster
on the new file system rather than creating a tablespace.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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