"Karen Ellrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yup, the key is that both those methods copy (rather than move) the
> directory. If you copy, you can use restart (I assume - I didn't try it).
Just for the benefit of the archives: copying the directory tree while
the postmaster is live is exactly w
Tom Lane wrote:
> But ... um ... did you restart the postmaster with the new path argument?
> Or only change the script?
Well, now I can't remember the exact sequence I used originally - I probably
tried to restart only after all the changes had taken place. I do remember
getting the error "can't
"Karen Ellrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ... Then I tried creating /var/pgdata fresh and doing initdb -D
> /var/pgdata, and that was okay until I tried to create the database again,
> when it said a database of that name already existed. Yes, I have changed
> my startup script to reflect the
Right after a new installation (7.1.1) and building my first table with the
data directory being the normal /usr/local/pgsql/data, I decided I wanted to
put my data directory on a different partition, for space reasons (room for
database growth) - I chose /var/pgdata. At first I tried just copying
