| From: | John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Why are data files stored in /var/lib |
| Date: | 2016-04-30 07:59:01 |
| Message-ID: | 0dd80e63-eae8-204a-f6ca-6929a0914ee1@hogranch.com |
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On 4/29/2016 8:30 PM, Charles Clavadetscher wrote:
> I had a discussion yesterday with some friends, who are sysadmins about the location of database files. In a default installation
> from a distribution (apt-get install) PostgreSQL creates a cluster unter/var/lib/. According to my colleagues /var/lib should not
> contain data that is supposed to last over time. I am aware that the location can be modified to suit the needs of sysadmins as
> described under these links.
some random thoughts on this...
apt-get is a debian/ubuntu thing. the rhel/centos/fedora builds also
put postgres in /var/lib, although the details differ.
a default built-from-source postgres puts everything in /usr/local
on centos, I generally mount a dedicated file system as
/var/lib/pgsql/x.y/data, or even as /var/lib/pgsql ... or if the data
file storage is already mounted somewhere arbitrary like /u01, then I'll
symlink /var/lib/pgsql/9.4 to /u01/pgsql/9.4 or whatever.
--
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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