From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | David Rickard <David(dot)Rickard(at)GTScompanies(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org, Judith Strawser <judiths(at)GTScompanies(dot)com> |
Subject: | Re: Identifying index files |
Date: | 2003-09-08 17:41:19 |
Message-ID: | 200309081741.h88HfJn06546@candle.pha.pa.us |
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David Rickard wrote:
> We're building a PostGreSQL 7.3.4 system; we want to place database index
> files on an external drive (for security and backup robustness); we have
> seen in the documentation that is is possible to move the index files to a
> new directory (after they are created) and making symbolic links to their
> new location. Our problem is distinguishing the index files from data
> files; does PostGreSQL have a naming convention for the index files? Or
> is there any particular content we could grep for to identify these files?
See the manual section on "Managing Disk Space".
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