Re: Multiple databases

From: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Noah Silverman <noah(at)allresearch(dot)com>, Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
Cc: Pgsql Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Multiple databases
Date: 2003-01-13 22:32:47
Message-ID: 200301131432.47468.josh@agliodbs.com
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Noah,

> Can someone give me a good description of what the various directories
> and files actually are. I have RTFMed, but the descriptions there
> don't seem to match what I have on my machine.

Within $PGDATA:

/base is all database files unless you use WITH LOCATION
/pg_clog is the Clog, which keeps a permanent count of transactions
/pg_xlog is the transaction log (WAL)
/global are a small number of relations, like pg_database or pg_user, which
are available in all databases.

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-Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

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