On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Ben Carbery <ben.carb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am building a new server with a separate partition for data and > xlogs. What is the correct way to do this? > > Can I create a symlink from /var/lib/pgsql/9.1/data -> /pg_data (and > then a symlink in /pgdata for xlogs-> /pg_xlog) > Or do I have to modify $PGDATA in the init script? > > This is all after installing packages but prior to 'service > postgresql-91 initdb' > > cheers > > initdb --pgdata <datadirectory> --xlogdir <pg_xlog location>, is the command which suit's your requirement. This command will take care of creating symblinks as well. --- Regards, Raghavendra EnterpriseDB Corporation Blog: http://raghavt.blogspot.com/
