Vlad <marchenko@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > which means that earlier suggestion you've made - to host temp dir on > a separate hd linked to temp dir under data tree it's not quite a > straight solution .... I assume that link will be erased by postgres > every time it finishes operating with temp directory. No, it just deletes the contents of the directory, it has no occasion to destroy a symlink. It is true that you'd have to set the symlink up manually any time you created a database, but after that it should be a non-issue. regards, tom lane