Re: rename a cluster

["Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)" <andy.shellam-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The cluster's "name" is only the file-system's directory path.

You can easily rename this directory, as long as you pass the relevant directory name to pg_ctl's -D parameter (which tells PostgreSQL which database "cluster" to use.)

It goes without saying, don't move the directory while PostgreSQL is running.


Ray Stell wrote:

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:36:23PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
  

Ray Stell wrote:
    

Is there a method to rename a cluster?
      

Clusters don't have names in the first place.
    

So, from 16.2 "Creating a Database Cluster"

"...you must initialize a database storage area on disk.
We call this a database cluster."

then, directory = cluster, no?

What I was trying to get at is, is mv of the dir ok or
is there something else that needs to be considered?  Thx.

---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster

!DSPAM:37,45d4a11118511420134615!


  

-- 
Andy Shellam
NetServe Support Team

the Mail Network
"an alternative in a standardised world"

p: +44 (0) 121 288 0832/0839
m: +44 (0) 7818 000834