Hi Holger, > On 26. Nov, 2020, at 15:00, Holger Jakobs <holger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It is no problem to move the base directory. > > • stop the database server > • move the base directory as a whole to some other location > mv /var/lib/pgsql/10/data/base /some/other/location > • create a symbolic link pointing to the new location > cd /var/lib/pgsql/10/data > ln -s /some/other/location/base . > • start the database server > BTW, an upgrade to a newer major version would be a good idea. why not just move the whole database and NOT create a symlink? Then just start the database in the new PGDATA? Of course you'd need to reconfigure your PGDATA in this case but I consider it more clean than running a database cluster on a symlink. Cheers, Paul
