Re: Moving pg_xlog

[Steven Winfield <Steven.Winfield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2016-12-02 17:10 GMT+13:00 Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@xxxxxxxxx>:

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Well, while the location of pg_xlog is not currently configurable, on Linux system the way to do it is  to:
>  1. stop PostgreSQL
>  2. move the pg_xlog directory to a separate partition
>  3. create a symbolic link to point to the new partition
>  4. restart PostgreSQL

It’s also worth mentioning that the xlog directory can be specified at cluster creation time using ‘initdb -X <directory>’, which (AFAICT) just creates the symlink for you.

 

Steve.

 

 

Dr. Steven Winfield

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