Re: Where's the Database?

"Big Bad Data Daddy" wrote:
>Hey List;
>
>I've been really getting into PostgreSQL attempting to rewrite my current
>website ( www.HireLiveMusicians.com ) with a DB backend. The site is
>working on flat text files currently. My question is for archiving/backing
>up and just general knowledge, where are my databases being stored by
>default. I've been creating the database logged on a specific user not
>root. I'm just curious, I know that I'm supposed to write scripts to create
>the tables, triggers, indexes, etc and then import my exported data back
>into the tables if something runs amiss.

Your databases are stored where you told initdb to put them.

When you create a new database it goes in the same directory as all the others;
ownership is not relevant to that, since all the files are owned by the
postgresql administrator login.

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