Re: How to find data directory

That works nice. It shows my data directory in
'/var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main'. When I do an ls command, I get:

$ sudo ls /var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main
base pg_clog pg_ident.conf pg_xlog postmaster.opts
root.crt
global pg_hba.conf PG_VERSION postgresql.conf postmaster.pid

I have created two database named 'testdb' and 'csalgorithm'. How do I
find these databases? I was expecting the databases to be subdirectories
under the database directory (e.g. /var/lib/postresql/7.4/main/testdb
and /var/lib/postgresql/7.4/main/csalgorithm).

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 19:34 -0800, Jeff Frost wrote:
> Then an easy way is likely to look at the init script that starts it, or use
> ps auxwww |grep postmaster to have a look at how it was started. The last
> command will likely yield something that looks like this:
>
> postgres 3026 0.0 0.3 20064 3176 ? S 08:21 0:00 /usr/bin/postmaster -p 5432 -D /var/lib/pgsql/data
>
> Which means the data directory is /var/lib/pgsql/data.
>
> >>> database, but I can find the directory where the database are kept. How
> >>> do I find where the postgresql database directory is from a command
> >>> line?
>