Bruce Momjian <bruce@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A. Kretschmer wrote: > > In response to S Arvind : > > > I want to know about the meaning of various directory present in data folder. > > > Mostly what will the 'base' folder contains? The reason of this is recently in > > > the datafolder 'global' was deleted unknowingly which leads to entire DB crash > > > in a second. We found a tool to get the data from the base folder as sql > > > queries, but many table content are missing.? > > > Pls tell what kind of data will be present in each folder, if possible sent the > > > doc link. > > > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/storage.html > > > > Read there and the sub-chapters. > > Yea, "base" was chosen because that makes the directory hierarchy > "/data/base", e.g. "database". ;-) Andreas -- Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect. (Linus Torvalds) "If I was god, I would recompile penguin with --enable-fly." (unknown) Kaufbach, Saxony, Germany, Europe. N 51.05082°, E 13.56889° -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general