Re: postgres database file location

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 00:46 -0800, Ramon Orticio wrote:
> dear friends,
>
> i created a bedrock sample database and put an
> employee table in it. i just can't find the file for
> the database so that i can transfer it to another
> computer. where is the file of bedrock located?

You cannot transfer the file or database directory alone and expect to
be able to recover data from it; there are global files involved as
well. To transfer data to another computer you should use pg_dump to
dump the database or table and then you should import the dump file on
the other machine.

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