On Monday 04 June 2007 04:53, Richard Huxton wrote: > John Gardner wrote: > > I've been testing one of our apps on PostgreSQL for the last few months > > and I'm about ready to put it on the production server, but I need > > advice on where to locate the tablespace. I've been so concerned > > getting the app working, I haven't even considered this yet. > > > > I'm using a RPM install of Postgres, so the data directory is located at > > /var/lib/pgsql/data/. Shall I just create a directory under here and > > point the tablespace to there? Any advice would be appreciated. > > If you're not going to be spreading your installation over multiple > disks (well, mount-points), there's no need to play with tablespaces at > all. Well, one could use them as part of a disk quota utilization scheme... granted doesn't sound like the OP needs them... just saying is all. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL