Re: Datafiles for Databases

Christopher Browne wrote:
> In the last exciting episode, sgnerd(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)sg ("Kumar") wrote:
> > I was looking for a structure like oracle or ms Sql?server in Postgres. What I have expected is individual
> > datafiles for individual databases. But i cant fine such items in the /usr/local/pgsql/data directory.
> >
> > Will the postgres create individual data file for databases?
>
> No. Just as with Oracle, PostgreSQL creates multiple files for each
> database.
>
> > How to get the datafile path of a database?
>
> select oid, datname from pg_database;
>
> The path for database 'datname' will be:
> $PGDATA/base/oid/

See the "Monitoring Disk Space" section in our manuals.

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