Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: >> Renaming the directory is OK. Just make sure your init script or >> whatever finds it. > Oh, and make sure the postmaster isn't running when you do the rename. While that's surely good practice, I don't think it's actually critical since 8.1 or whenever we switched the code over to all-relative-pathnames. Part of the point of that change was to make sure that a DBA couldn't accidentally corrupt a database by renaming it while live. regards, tom lane
