Re: Postgres physical directory structure meaning

A. Kretschmer wrote:
> In response to S Arvind :
> > 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. We found a tool to get the data from the base folder as sql
> > queries, but many table content are missing.?
> > Pls tell what kind of data will be present in each folder, if possible sent the
> > doc link.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/storage.html
>
> Read there and the sub-chapters.

Yea, "base" was chosen because that makes the directory hierarchy
"/data/base", e.g. "database".

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