Re: Separating the ro directory of the DB engine itself from the rw data areas . . .

From: Jasen Betts <jasen(at)xnet(dot)co(dot)nz>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Separating the ro directory of the DB engine itself from the rw data areas . . .
Date: 2011-01-28 22:49:07
Message-ID: ihvh53$9q0$2@reversiblemaps.ath.cx
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On 2011-01-24, Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> ~
> I need to configure postgreSQL in a way that I could run it from a
> directory mounted as read only, with separate rw partitions mounted
> for the data, logs, . . .
> ~
> What would be the steps to follow and the issues to take into consideration?

first read through the main config file

as far as I know postgres doesn't need to write the main cluster
directory (/var/lib/postgres/8.4/main here - a debian variant)
only the subdirectories off it data,xlog etc...

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