From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Harsh Azad <harsh.azad@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Index files
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:33:23 -0400
Message-ID: <18989.1189740803@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
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"Harsh Azad" <harsh.azad@gmail.com> writes:
> Where are the database index files located in the $PGDATA directory?
Read
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/storage.html> I was
> thinking on soft linking them to another physical hard disk array.
Manual symlink management, while not impossible, pretty much sucks
... especially if your tables are big enough that you actually need to
do this. Use a tablespace instead. (If you are on a PG version that
hasn't got tablespaces, you are more than overdue to upgrade.)
regards, tom lane
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