Re: Postgres physical directory structure meaning

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: S Arvind <arvindwill(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Postgres physical directory structure meaning
Date: 2010-02-16 14:41:04
Message-ID: 20100216144104.GD5330@alvh.no-ip.org
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S Arvind escribió:
> I want to know about the meaning of various directory present in data
> folder. Mostly what will the 'base' folder contains? The reason of this is
> recently in the datafolder 'global' was deleted unknowingly which leads to
> entire DB crash in a second.

"global" contains some system catalogs. Not terribly critical, but you
need to do quite some work in order to make the system work again
without them.

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