Re: safelly erasing dirs/files

From: Bill Todd <pg(at)dbginc(dot)com>
To: Joao Ferreira gmail <joao(dot)miguel(dot)c(dot)ferreira(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: safelly erasing dirs/files
Date: 2009-11-15 02:37:53
Message-ID: 4AFF6981.2070709@dbginc.com
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From the on-line help:

|DROP DATABASE| drops a database. It removes the catalog entries for the
database and deletes the directory containing the data.

Joao Ferreira gmail wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> How can I safelly erase (with rm command in Linux) files or dirs
> concerning a specific database ?
>
> assuming I whish to elimiante data belonging to database A but I do not
> whish to disturb or cause any injury to database B
>
> Is there documentation on how to do this or on what exactly am I erasing
> if I remove some specific file or dir.
>
> Thanks
>
> Joao
>
>
>
>

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