From: Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>
To: Campbell, Lance <lance@uiuc.edu>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Installing PostgreSQL
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:26:19 +0100
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Campbell, Lance wrote:
> Richard,
> So what you are saying is that if you install PostgeSQL into a data
> directory /abc/data you could then stop the database, move the files
> into /def/data, and then start the database making sure to point to the
> new data directory. PostgreSQL is therefore referencing its files
> relative to the "data" directory the files are in.
>
> Is this a correct observation?
Yes - provided:
1. Ownership and permissions on the destination directory are correct
2. You remember to stop the server when copying
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Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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