girish R G peetle wrote: > We have requirement to perform File system based restore of entire PostgreSQL database server to a > different mount point. > > -> I know that if no user created tablespaces are involved, we have just need to restore the entire > DATA directory to new mount point, modify configuration parameters if required and then start the > server. > -> If user created table-space directories are involved, then we will have to manually adjust the > symbolic links (under pg_tblspc) to the new tablespace directory path and bring up the server. > > Adjusting symbolic links is a workaround ( hook! ), is there a any official documentation on how > 'PostgreSQL server restore to a different mount point' can be achieved ? That should work. The only documentation is at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/continuous-archiving.html#BACKUP-PITR-RECOVERY which mentions tablespaces, but does not discuss your case directly. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin