From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Datafiles for Databases
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:12:26 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200309241612.h8OGCQG11706@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34qz9oxz6.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com>
Christopher Browne wrote:
> In the last exciting episode, sgnerd@yahoo.com.sg ("Kumar") wrote:
> > I was looking for a structure like oracle or ms Sql?server in Postgres. What I have expected is individual
> > datafiles for individual databases. But i cant fine such items in the /usr/local/pgsql/data directory.
> >
> > Will the postgres create individual data file for databases?
>
> No. Just as with Oracle, PostgreSQL creates multiple files for each
> database.
>
> > How to get the datafile path of a database?
>
> select oid, datname from pg_database;
>
> The path for database 'datname' will be:
> $PGDATA/base/oid/
See the "Monitoring Disk Space" section in our manuals.
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