Re: rename a cluster

Many thx. It that in the doc?

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:21:05PM +0000, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote:
> The cluster's "name" is only the file-system's directory path.
>
> You can easily rename this directory, as long as you pass the relevant
> directory name to pg_ctl's -D parameter (which tells PostgreSQL which
> database "cluster" to use.)
>
> It goes without saying, don't move the directory while PostgreSQL is
> running.
>
>
> Ray Stell wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 06:36:23PM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >
> >>Ray Stell wrote:
> >>
> >>>Is there a method to rename a cluster?
> >>>
> >>Clusters don't have names in the first place.
> >>
> >
> >So, from 16.2 "Creating a Database Cluster"
> >
> >"...you must initialize a database storage area on disk.
> >We call this a database cluster."
> >
> >then, directory = cluster, no?
> >
> >What I was trying to get at is, is mv of the dir ok or
> >is there something else that needs to be considered? Thx.
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