| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Where do my local data bases go? |
| Date: | 2012-01-30 15:56:29 |
| Message-ID: | 15265.1327938989@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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"Jean-Yves F. Barbier" <12ukwn(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:26:07 -0700
> Kevin Goulding <kevingoulding(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> My question is -- how do I find where on my hard drive the newly created
>> database ends up?
> In Linux, files are in:
> /var/lib/postgresql/Pg_version_Nb/main/base/OID_of_DB
That's the case for some packagings of Postgres, but not all. The more
traditional location is /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/DBOID/...
>> I have searched the names, with no luck. Could it have
>> to do with the OID number
> Yep.
If you're interested in this sort of detail, you might find it useful
to read the "Database Physical Storage" chapter of the manual:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/storage.html
(adjust link in the obvious way for whichever major version you're
running, as the details move around sometimes)
regards, tom lane
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