Thanks to all of you. I actually read the chapter but I just remembered to not touch pg's own area pg_* So ... I'll go for it |-----Original Message----- |From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] |Sent: Freitag, 24. Juni 2005 15:50 |To: KÖPFERL Robert |Cc: [ADMIN] |Subject: Re: [ADMIN] symlinking pg_xlog | | |=?iso-8859-1?Q?K=D6PFERL_Robert?= <robert.koepferl@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: |> due to I/O-bottle necks I think of making a symlink from |pg_xlog to another |> physical disk. |> This is a modification inside the cluster dir. What kind of |idea is that? |> bad one? | |That's exactly the recommended way to put xlog on a separate disk. | |Don't forget to shut down the postmaster while moving xlog around ;-) | | regards, tom lane |