On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 09:10:35AM -0700, Tomeh, Husam wrote: > > I have a postgres installation with one database on a server. I'd need > to create another database; however, I'm curious if there's a way to > create the second database in a different directory than the existing > one. Is that feasible and how? Or does postgres only point to one data > directory? Thanks in advance. Each database is stored in its own directory, usually under $PGDATA/base. Do you mean you want to create a database somewhere else? What version of PostgreSQL are you using? 8.0 and later support tablespaces; in previous versions you could use the technique described in the "Alternative Locations" section of the "Managing Databases" chapter in the documentation. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/manage-ag-tablespaces.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/sql-createdatabase.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/manage-ag-alternate-locs.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/sql-createdatabase.html -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
