From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Datafiles for Databases
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:48:29 -0400
Message-ID: <m34qz9oxz6.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com> (raw)
References: <028101c37e70$3896a6e0$7502a8c0@hdsc.com>
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/
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